Word: damningly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first bout onwards, but despite his unpopularity he drew enormous crowds and was therefore able to charge an enormous price for performing. He retired to Plains, Ga., to raises peanuts. That was about ten years ago. Well, in this bicentennial year, peanuts and Plains, Ga., ring a bell? Damn right it does: that's Jimmy Carter's occupation and home town. A coincidence? Hardly. Crusher's friends admit that he has lost more than four hundred pounds, shaved his beard, and dyed his hair blond. But they say you can still tell him by his smile. Figure...
...baton twirlers. Last week in Nebraska and Louisiana, he stood back as enthusiasts held up infants for a smooch, explaining: "I come in contact with so many people in the course of a day, and there are so many strange bugs going around." Groused a disappointed father in Shreveport: "Damn. The kid has already had all those bugs, but he's never been kissed by a presidential candidate...
...same people who were backing me are just as viciously and strongly backing Reagan." In Arizona, Goldwater charges, some Reagan people threatened to defeat him if he ran for delegate to the National Convention. "I've never been a delegate, so it didn't matter a damn to me." He will be a speaker in Kansas City...
...boiling confrontation between Union President Arnold Miller and Vice President Mike Trbovich. "This union is on the verge of financial disaster!" shouted Trbovich. "Our money and our future are being squandered by Arnold Miller's mismanagement!" Jumping to the mike, Miller snapped back: "That's a damn lie and you know it!" An hour later, Miller suspended Trbovich from the vice presidency, ostensibly for failing to launch an investigation of union organizing programs in the West...
Although the match was Barnaby's last against his old Princeton rivals, he was not worried about the outcome. "I was so proud of the team's play that I didn't give a damn if we won or lost it," Barnaby said. "The win was just cream on the top of the bottle...