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Word: damnedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to the YAF minutes of the meeting, "Mr. Williams, in explaining his negative vote, asked the committee to understand that 'I'm a damned bigot."

Author: By R.andrew Beyer, | Title: Williams Attacks HYRC 'Machine' | 2/17/1962 | See Source »

Hard by the Swiss-German border, 50 green-coated hunters crouched in the bulrushes and cocked their scatter-guns. The hunters were edgy. It was 7:27 a.m.-three minutes left before they could start banging away legally at the flock of plump, brown-black Belchen (coots) paddling peacefully across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Belchen Butchery | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

It is traditional at Harvard exams that students suffering the tortures of the damned be permitted an occasional respite to visit the lavatory or partake in the pleasures of a cigarette. Apparently, however, the Registrar's Office has neglected to inform this year's proctors of these basic human rights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Country Club Set | 1/24/1962 | See Source »

"Just Sit By Me." Although McCormack is extraordinarily thin-skinned himself, he can and does dish it out with one of the House's roughest tongues. Once, in the middle of a formal debate, he bluntly called Representative Earl Wilson of Indiana a "damned fool," and was required to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Mr. Speaker | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

Plenty of Oomph. Northrop had little trouble selling VIPS to the Air Force. On a test flight in Texas, the system worked perfectly; its calm voice gave prompt warning of many simulated hazards. Then the pilot, Major H. T. Deutschendorf, started his landing approach. Gina spoke once more, warning that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lady Aloft | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

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