Word: damns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even so, Tories faced this week's North Croydon by-election with trepidation. In 1945, their man had just squeaked in by 607 votes against strong Labor and Liberal opposition. And Liberals were again entering a candidate, glamorous war hero Air Vice Marshal Donald Bennett, whose "damn the government" platform would tend to sap Tory strength...
...people who love the opera for itself . . . object to the sneering and leering of those who choose (shall I say to be charitable) to be so damn superior. . . . The singers do not "snort and bellow!" If they did they would find themselves out of a job-but quickly! And one does not attend the opera to see acting. Get that straight! One goes to hear . . . the ecstasy of the human soul in song...
...down in a a Byerly Hall lecture room filled with scientific neophytes enrolled in the General Education offering, Natural Sciences 1. Bent over so far that he appears to be sniffing out his path, he turns frequently to gaze at his flock with what one student called "the friendliest damn eyes I ever...
...talk of women, politics or religion in the wardroom. But for two years now, Annapolis midshipmen had been sponsoring something called the Wardroom Panel, where such guests as Navy critic Rear Admiral (ret.) Ellis M. Zacharias, Columnist Frank Kent, Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer and Lord Inverchapel could damn the torpedoes or anything else they pleased. Some did and some didn't. Last week Cartoonist-Author Bill Mauldin, who used to be an Army enlisted man himself, stood up front. As usual, no officers were invited, but a record 1,200 midshipmen turned...
...costs. Wurdeman thinks that "they just haven't presented their cases right." The partners, who netted $125,000 apiece last year, are still penny-conscious. Says Wurdeman: "I just wouldn't know how to act if a guy would say 'I don't give a damn how much it costs...