Word: damningly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fired faculty members view the situation in a somewhat different light. "I feel as though I'm being sued for no damn reason other than that I'm being fired," says Robert R. Harrell, a tenured associate professor of English and one of the six defendants. As head of the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors-the official guardian of academic freedom and tenure-Harrell is particularly concerned by what he believes was a lack of due process in the hurried head chopping. The budget cuts were recommended, not ordered, he notes, "and there...
...told stories about how his brother done his wife wrong by staying too late in the Four-way Grill in Memphis and calling home and telling her he was working late, and she walked out on him taking all the furniture. He did his version of Conway Twitty, and damn if two blondes, with piled-up hair-dos like you see at Wallace rallies, didn't stand and shout Let me hear ya, O.B.! He did a couple more country tunes from other people and twisted and grinned and showed with his voice what the most doubtful of those lyrics...
...Squinting into the bright glare of TV lights in the Henry and Edsel Ford Auditorium, he declared: "I issue an open warning right now to all dope pushers, to all rip-off artists, to all muggers: It's time to leave Detroit. I don't give a damn if they are black or white, or if they wear Super Fly suits or blue uniforms with silver badges: Hit the road...
...some, the affair might seem a bit ridiculous, but it was strong enough to survive many storms. Social critics might, and regularly did damn the high-powered car as a strangler of cities, fouler of the air and catalyst of a blighted landscape of junkyards, filling stations and hotdog stands. Foreigners might tempt with siren songs of durability and economy, and lure no small number of Americans into dalliance with a Volkswagen or Toyota. Even the average driver in the last decade or so might grumble at his beloved during a traffic jam or on the day that the insurance...
Both Waud and Duhme faulted the physicians, who, they claimed, do not learn the official, chemical, "tongue-twisting" names. "They're too damn lazy," Waud said, "and they've bought the standard line...