Word: damnedest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...balance. These men are racked and struggling, and if one of them sings he's "tougher than the rest," from a song of the same name, he sounds like he's faking it. No rebels here. This album is populated by people down the street who are trying their damnedest just not to be victims...
...boats in each event have to pass in tight spaces, coxes do not always use their best judgement, says Jerry Olrich, a member of the Head-of-the-Charles Committee, who has rowed in all 20 regattas. "Sometimes in the heat of battle, you just try to do your damnedest...
...perhaps gross. Styled as a basic "women's literature" textbook, Titters 101 is the image of the abused high school volume, in which every kind of girl wrote notes to her friends and herself. With underlinings in blue and hand-written scribblings in the margins, the book tries its damnedest to give the illusion of being used. Starry-eyed, worldly wise, crude and prude alike have scrawled in the margins. A sampling...
...Mondale backer, Hart has pulled off "probably the biggest upset in Democratic politics since [Eugene] McCarthy went up against Lyndon Johnson in New Hampshire in 1968." Says puzzled Pollster Claibourne Darden, whose soundings failed to gauge the extent of the Hart surge in New Hampshire: "It's just the damnedest thing I ever...
Still, the criticism rankles. "I'm doing my damnedest 24 hours a day to make the Met as good as I can," says Levine with unaccustomed asperity. "Every decision I make is to try to do that, and I can't help it if sometimes I'm wrong or sometimes I'm no good. That's just the way it is." Levine insists he has no desire to hog the Met's podium. The great opera conductors, he says, are routinely invited, but their crowded schedules usually do not permit them to give...