Word: damnedest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deal with in your letters to the Indy and more recently to The Crimson, you have deftly explained the need and propriety of "negative social pressure" on gays. The idea is quite straightforward If society doesn't like gays, and it surely doesn't, society should try its damnedest to make sure that fewer people wind up that way. You haven't said explicitly what kinds of pressures would be used, but I think it's fairly easy to see that we would go with whatever is most effective Television ads with public personalities speaking out on the horrors...
...political and military analysts are increasingly pessimistic about the corrosive psychological effects of the drawn-out fighting on the armed forces that buttress the civilian-military government of Christian Democrat President Jose Napoleon Duarte. Said a senior U.S. military analyst: "We are trying our damnedest to keep this enthusiasm up. That's why we sent those helicopters in so quickly." Warned a high-ranking U.S. specialist on Central America: "The momentum has gone, and we are within inches of losing control over the situation entirely...
...Jaclyn be saved? As the doctors go to work, Bosley and the other two Angels retire to the hospital chapel, where a closeup shows a tearful Cheryl Ladd whispering, "Oh, please, God, please." Enter, after a commercial break, a doctor announcing Jaclyn's miraculous recovery: "It was the damnedest thing...