Word: damnedest
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...will be “a tall order to get [a proposal] through by spring,” Rentschler says, but he and his colleagues will “try our damnedest...
...over. One dry spell came in 1930. He hadn't had a #1 song in three years; now he'd gone to Hollywood to write a musical for Douglas Fairbanks, "Reaching for the Moon," and after discouraging previews the studio had cut most of the songs. "I developed the damnedest feelings of inferiority," Berlin said. "I got so I called in anybody to listen to my songs - stockroom boys, secretaries. One blink of an eye and I was stuck...
...sick and tired of the bleeding hearts who constantly find fault with the U.S. and Britain, which are doing their damnedest to keep civilization intact [THE WAR, Nov. 19]. I do not understand why some people are suddenly protesting now. Where were they when women under the Taliban regime were being forced to stay at home and some were beaten or murdered? Where were they when patients in Afghan hospitals were dying and children were without teachers because professional Afghan women were not allowed to work? Where were the protesters when innocent Africans were blown to bits while working...
...between that volume and this one came Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, one of the damnedest books of all time. Tapped by Reagan's inner circle to be the President's authorized biographer, Morris had unprecedented access to Reagan, who turned out to be the man who was not there: amiable, detached and mentally adrift. Exasperated by the weightlessness of his central figure, Morris introduced himself into Dutch as a semifictional character who moves in and out of Reagan's life, along with an entirely fictional son who becomes a student radical. Even the footnotes, with their citations from...
...apparently were ahead of Miller, who adamantly denies he was mulling a switch. "I don't want to talk about it!" Miller barked when I cornered him with the defection rumor off the Senate floor. "It's a non-story!" He walked off, muttering to himself: "This is the damnedest place...