Word: damns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Davis. When Army center Bill Yeomans was flattened by Crimson guard John Coan, I slapped the major on the back. And at the end of the game, I saw the Crimson, standing at attention, better than the Cadets, while the Band played "Fair Harvard." I didn't gave a damn that we'd lost the game. We'd gained something deeper...
Recently, for instance, Superman ran up against a mad genius called "Ghost Voice." Like any normal mad genius, Ghost Voice intended to conquer the world, and, through his familiarity with such contrivances as rocket-ships and atomic persuaders, damn near succeeded. But after weathering several molecular blasts, Superman balked the "power-crazed demon," who had had the United Nations eating out of his hand. Immediately following this chilling epic, however, Superman dawdled a whole fortnight, breaking up a dowdy bunch of racketeers engaged in fixing football games...
...newcomer's scientific standing and what admirers call his "genius look" won him an instant audience on both campuses. But the theater almost emptied after the first act. Professor Tolman wryly congratulated Oppenheimer on his first lecture: "Well, Robert, I didn't understand a damn word." He had lectured at a breakneck pace, in abstract prose punctuated by a dozen distracting mannerisms...
...told the Old Sarge, T'm going to bring some of these over to the old duffers.' Sarge shook his head and said 'Do you want to start a riot?' But I persisted and at first I wasn't too welcome ('Damn old hen come asnoopin''). I let the insults slide over me and kept bringing the magazines. Now, believe it or not, I have the old devils talking to each other and we even have sessions of discussion on topics of interest. Some of the old rascals have scrimped and saved...
...inclined to carp. To them, the Century's elegances were a glimpse of unknown comfort, a far cry from the jolting realities of everyday railroad travel. The truth was that the U.S. citizen, in his capacity as a passenger, had generally been regarded by the railroads as a damn nuisance. Until very recent times, the railroads have been mainly interested in freight. Empire Builder Jim Hill, gloomily contemplating one of his Great Northern Railway's Limiteds, once remarked: "A passenger train is like the male teat-neither useful nor ornamental...