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Word: damns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drivers hate the damn thing," said Richard W. Fligg of the Harvard Taxi Company, commenting on the Square's new rotary traffic system. "Companies have lost their stands in front of Waldorf's, the Harvard Trust Company, and Howard Johnson's. Brattle Cab has been pushed clear back to Church Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cabbies Condemn Rotary in Square | 10/14/1949 | See Source »

...Communists are a league; We don't give a damn for excommunication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Have a Unifa | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...late summer, at least three blue-blooded young horses were running nose-and-nose for the two-year-old championship. The best finisher was chunky, bay Hill Prince, beaten only once-and that time by what his rider, Jockey Eddie Arcaro, confessed was "a damn bad ride." At Saratoga in August, a colt named Middle-ground outran everything in sight, and in the Midwest a streak of bay lightning known as Curtice was winning again & again. According to custom, the three of them should have had it out last week in the Belmont Futurity, the race that decides the juvenile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Speed & Foresight | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...delegates for forty dollars for the two weeks stay. The U. S. delegates were bedded down in acollege dormitory with newly-in-stalled additional plumbing; they were assigned interpreters by the Hungarian government. They were given periodicals to keep them up on world events. "The Hungarians did a damn good job." and one of the delegates...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Youth Told of Grim U.S. at Budapest | 10/7/1949 | See Source »

...year sheriff bought an airplane, a new automobile and a new house. He took his wife on a trip to Lake Tahoe. He got the county to provide a $163 uniform which was loaded with gold braid. But Ard himself told him "not to put that damn thing on and make a fool of himself." It seemed that no matter what he did, people objected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OREGON: The Great Misunderstanding | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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