Word: damns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Complaint Dept. In Colorado Springs, G. E. Dell recovered his stolen 1939 sedan with a surly note from the thief: "Your car ain't no damn good...
...hearty and likable, though newsmen wince when he calls them "buddy-boy." (He calls Gable "Clarkie.") Once he proudly noted in his column that his seven-year-old daughter has a standard answer to kids who ask what her father does: "He writes the best damn column in town, and if I don't say so, they twist...
Counterarguments that half a loaf was better than none only made Tobey hotter. "I accept this challenge," he cried, "and I'll see them in-you know where . . . Damn the legislative torpedoes. Let's go ahead and give the country what the American people want...
...Damn the Torpedoes." After that, there was only one more hurdle to adjournment. In the face of Bob Taft's disavowal of his own long-range housing program, New Hampshire's Republican Charles Tobey forced the full Taft-Ellender-Wagner Act to the Senate floor. Promptly, Wisconsin's ex-Marine Joe McCarthy offered a substitute bill, which would simply increase loan and mortgage guarantees to private builders...
...hanged himself, Scobie had insisted to the local priest that this suicide might be forgiven because, being a non-Catholic, the man did not know what he was doing. "If you or I did it, it would be despair-I grant you anything with us. We'd be damned, all right, because we know, but he doesn't know a thing." Scobie believed that his own suicide would eternally damn him-shut him off forever from the presence...