Word: damningly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though the gay plank did not pass. "Goddam. If that's what they're going to talk about, we're never going to get this party together again. They haven't got a dog's chance of electing a President on this platform. Damn, do they need Wallace...
...plunged into both, often disappearing for weeks at a time to work 18-hour days in his laboratory. His constant shuffling between projects unnerved some associates. Recalls Assistant Vice President Christopher Ingraham: "When we seemed to be putting all our efforts into camera design, someone would say, 'God damn it, Dr. Land, how about making the film?' And he would reply, 'Oh, that's all taken care of, don't worry about that.' Actually, the film people couldn't believe their ears...
...returning to New York two years later but difficulties continued to dog him, and success as a novelist or poet evaded him. As the decade dissolved into a blur of smoke-filled soirees in overheated rooms, everpresent drinks and effervescent Follies girls, Wilson awoke one morning in 1929 to damn New York's literary life as "a babel of tongues, a round of disorderly parties, an exchange of malicious gossip and a blather of half-baked aspirations...
...eyes. The Trial of the Catonsville Nine, adapted by Daniel Berrigan from his own play, and filmed by Gordon Davidson--who staged the original production as artistic director of the Mark Taper Forum--is definitely radical in outlook. The figures it focuses on and attempts to heroicize not only damn the Vietnam War, but a general policy of American Third World influence which they view as evidence of economic imperialism...
...well win as many this year, but largely because the executives see no acceptable alternative. James Howell, vice president of First National Bank of Boston, says that many of his high-ranking colleagues, "being typically New England businessmen, would like to support Nixon, but they find it a damn difficult job to do." The chief of one of the blue-chip corporations represented on the Business Council, an advisory group to the Administration, is only slightly more complimentary: "Nixon is not brilliant, or the best we have had, but he is what...