Word: damnedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Damned Unpleasant." The furor was created not by "secret gases" but by three common riot-control gases that the U.S. has been supplying to South Vietnamese forces since 1962: CN (chloroacetophenone), a fragrant-smelling tear gas that also irritates the skin, loses effectiveness in about three minutes; CS (o-chlorobenzalmalononi...
In one form or another, the three gases have been in use for nearly 40 years. The British used CS in Cyprus and British Guiana, a fact that must have surprised Foreign Minister Stewart no end, and the French used it in Algeria. Guards on both sides of the Berlin...
But the mistakes that beat Princeton weren't at all fantastical. No rebounding, spotty defense, foul trouble for Bill Bradley--all these damned the Tigers and ruined their chances to reach the NCAA championship finals tonight.
First to hit the beach was Corporal Garry Parsons, who splashed onto the wet sand and sprinted 50 yards into a stand of pine trees-and a platoon of photographers. Parsons' comment was candid if not immortal. Cried he, "I'm glad to get off that damned ship...
Author West, professor of history at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis and a Southerner himself, was not attracted to Butler by hero worship. "I wanted to take on the meanest damned rascal I could find," West explains. But in sorting through the myths, West discovered that beneath the Beast...