Word: damnedest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...couldn't even tell you who shot Mr. Burns, and yet all month long I've been doing my damnedest to watch every Simpsons episode I can find on the 50-some-odd channels the folks at the cable company pump into my house. What's more, lately I've been given to wondering how I was able to live so long without Sportscenter. Finally, and perhaps most embarrassingly, I seem to be becoming some kind of Jim Lehrer Newshour groupie...
...answers are coherent but indifferent. Trying to tease something out of him, I lay out a scenario: Dole wants to crack down on marijuana, making it harder to get and more risky to possess. Clinton, on the other hand, sounds like he's going to do his damnedest to take cigarettes out of the hands of kids. I tell Dave people like him need to pick their poison, so to speak. It's pot or cigarettes, Dole or Clinton...
...hard to believe we were so stupid. But we'll do our damnedest to convince you we were exactly that stupid. It's better than having you believe we were misusing the FBI to help us smear top Republicans...
...four years to make up for," says Robert F. Dee '46-'49, who fought for the Tenth Mountain Ski Troop. "We had lost so much time we were doing our damnedest to get out quickly...
...changed now. He must reckon with a possibly uncooperative House, led by fractious freshmen who suspect Dole of selling out and last week pleaded with Dick Armey to be their champion. He must deal with the dogged Senate minority leader, Tom Daschle, and the filibustering Democrats doing their damnedest to obstruct and water down any legislation...