Word: damningly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enough to fit 20 naked people) where two guys limped it into each other's laps on top of the wooden housing covering the spring, and when any sun-blistered American might have been expected, no even required, obligated, bound and beholden to roar "Fucking Faggots," Peg only muttered "Damn flat-land turkeys," and all of us except for Briggs, a slow-as-molasses bear of a flatlander passing himself off in the mountains, hopping down to a cold creek a 100 yards down from the tub--it taking just a little time for all of us to get pretty...
...best damn jail in Europe," boasted erstwhile Greek Strongman George Papadopoulos in 1968, brushing off reports that under his rule, thousands of Greek political prisoners had been held in Athens' Korydallos prison. Last week Papadopoulos himself, after seven months in Korydallos, became the principal defendant in a mass trial at the prison. Along with 19 other former members of the ousted military junta, the ex-dictator was charged with acts of high treason and insurrection that had subjected Greece to 7½ years of dictatorship, from 1967 to 1974. The maximum penalty for insurrection: death by firing squad...
...lesson that the Congressman from Lowell has learned is that "Congress is gun-shy about being ahead of the country. It wants to be damn sure there is consensus before it sticks its neck out. The freshmen don't see themselves in this role. We want to be the action. Given the fact that there is nothing going on in the White House, we would like to lead, not just act like the recorder writing down what the latest poll confirms...
...powerful human drive. To many idealists the primacy of the profit motive has long seemed to be a sanctification of selfishness that produces a brutalizing, beggar-thy-neighbor society. Victorian Moralist John Ruskin denounced "the deliberate blasphemy of Adam Smith: Thou shalt hate the Lord thy God, damn His laws, and covet thy neighbour's goods...
...advance who the day's guests would be. Frustrated and discouraged, Quinn stopped reading the books of authors she knew she had to interview and even began forgetting what she had done on the program from one day to the next. "I just didn't give a damn," she admits. "It showed...