Word: damningly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certain standard of behavior will be maintained. We have a difficult situation here--13 and 14 year old girls going on international trips with 23 and 24 year-old guys. The fathers of the guys might not care too much what their kids do, but you can be damn sure that the mothers of the girls care...
...Angeles. It's just the people haven't been educated--they're stingy. There's been no good trial lawyer who has raised the awards...I think you see some cities with pockets of high awards and they are attributable to one or two damn good trial lawyers, and that's unfortunate...
Bailey's a damn good lawyer, but he did a lousy job...just execrable...It's pretty hard to sue a lawyer for malpractice, for an error in judgement...He made the worst mistake in the world when he got into a spitting contest with his client; a lawyer never can win that. There are some things people won't forgive you for saying about your former client. But he's one of the best in the country...
Trying to assuage indignant Africans, the U.S. mission drafted a press release in which the ambassador would have acknowledged that while some of Amin's remarks were offensive, others deserved wide approval. Moynihan balked. "I let it be known," he writes, "that not one god damn thing Amin had said had won my 'wide approval.' " It began to dawn on Kissinger that his ambassador was more than he had bargained for. Bit by leaked bit, the Secretary indicated his displeasure, until a rebuke via James Reston's column in the New York Times persuaded Moynihan that...
...pretty far removed from discos; certainly Revlon's admen would not dream of suggesting that a woman go disco dancing in a veiled hat. But if disco lights dictate dark lips and eyes, and that suggests an exotic aura of which veils are a symbol?well, who gives a damn about logic...