Word: damningly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must conclude that Con Edison just doesn't give a damn," Saunders said. "Con Ed thinks it is big enough to thumb its nose at the public and get away with...
...promote. One small shareholder, Ditria Ilario of Manhattan, notes sourly: "You can make more money by putting your cash in the bank." Brokers are equally unmoved. Says Harvey Bettis, chief of Harris, Upham & Co.'s Chicago operation: "There's a possibility that we will just leave the damn thing alone...
...what few reporters ever have: the drop-off and possible pickup of a kidnap ransom. By then, Sorensen's editors had radioed him to abandon the assignment, and a car with two suspicious-looking plainclothesmen was approaching him. Sorensen finally decided to pull out. "I was getting too damn warm," he acknowledged later...
...Fifth Symphony," "Missa Solemnis"), another talented foreigner. In fairness to editor Michael Scheff, it must be noted that Beethoven disliked the telephone and refused to compose for it. (Late in his life, Beethoven is reported to have smashed his quill down on his writing table and shouted, "This damn phone is no damn use. It never rings!") But while the dearth of foreign compositions might be understandable, it is no less regrettable. Reading the book, one feels the same sense of loss a young man feels after missing his train home on a steamy summer evening...
...have an opinion on every single subject there is. In the beginning it was theology, and my bosses didn't like it. Now I am a political and my bosses don't like it. I speak sotto voce. But if I get heated, then I don't give a damn. I can't be servile. I give service. There is a difference...