Word: damningly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still fuming last week about the confiscation of Diplomatic Passport X-000065, that official piece of paper certifying to any doubter anywhere that, while he might be out of Government, he still carried clout as Jimmy Carter's good Georgia buddy. "I don't care about the damn passport," Lance told a friend in Atlanta. "But what a lousy way to handle it. They didn't even have the guts to tell me in person." He had, in fact, merely been informed by a bureaucratic letter that his passport had been "audited" and must be returned...
...dangerous to anyone. Remarked Clinical Director George W. Getz: "I really don't know whether he was originally insane; but it doesn't matter. The jury found that he was, and he was assigned to us. I really feel sorry for juries because of all the damn fool things psychiatrists...
...Ditchley's wife decided to start a career; $50,000 and two bankrupt batik boutiques later, she got into a law school. Now, whenever he tries to strike up a conversation with her, she mutters things like "Deponent sayeth not. " But Ditchley is sending Junior to law school too, damn the expense. A good father, he figures, does not send his son into the world defenseless...
...aftertaste, though, is something like the last four drinks in a ten-drink evening: They tasted good, you think, but damn if you can remember what was in 'em. Son of a Son of a Sailor takes no chances--the formula worked last time, sent him from Paul's Mall to the Music Hall, frontal-assaulted the Top Forty, and paid for a new sloop, Euphoria II. There aren't but a half-dozen memorable lines on the new album, and even fewer musical quirks, like the cello (the cello??) that follows Buffett down one of his trademark Acapulco cliff...
...urges him to pledge publicly that he will hold the deficit to $60 billion and at least implicitly threaten to veto big-spending bills. Says one high economic adviser: "If we go above $60 billion, the stock market will be affected and so will the dollar. It's damn important psychologically...