Word: damnedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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For years, Assistant Treasury Secretary Stanley S. Surrey has damned the "provisions favoring special groups or special individuals that run counter to our notions of tax fairness." Commissioner of Internal Revenue Mortimer Caplin has long yearned to cut taxes from 91% to 65% in the highest brackets, and from 20...
Anyone who manages to read this book will quite likely become damned mad. Furthermore, if you do read it, the direction of your anger will depend almost solely upon your prior viewpoint.
Elbow Ethics. Implicit in many such methods are tricks of the trade not exactly prescribed by the rules-and indeed N.B.A. officials are lenient of necessity. Admits one referee: "We don't call a foul unless the contact directly involves the play-except once in a while. If we...
When not the target of hostile fire, the Special Artist was frequently decommissioned by the many illnesses and hard ships of the field. "I was down with an attack of the billious remittent fever. Brought on by exposure to the damned cli mate in the cussed swamps," wrote Alfred Waud...
Fowler was always pleasantly known to his boss as "that young man from Denver." He remained young, or at least he retained an impishly boyish notion of what constitutes a great moment in history. He could remember Queen Marie of Rumania's being presented with an honorary headdress by...