Word: damns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thanks to TIME for an unbiased account of the position of Dartmouth's President Hopkins re proportionate selection for college admissions. Though TIME did not directly damn the jingoism whose misrepresentations produced the controversy, TIME'S summary could lead any college man - student, alumnus, or administrator-only into agreement with President Hopkins and the principles of Dartmouth's system...
...close reader of TIME since . . . '39, I've learned in the ETO three things that some of you seem to overlook: 1) Not one in ten soldiers ever sees a foxhole. 2) Damn few "give" their lives. Except in that million-in-one Kamikaze case, the average G.I. merely takes unwillingly the first step to make it available. The volition is usually some nervous reaction such as fear, impatience, confusion. 3) In battle a lot of young men learn for the first time that young men can, do and, under the circumstances, are likely to die. That thought...
Breathers. In Bennington, Vt., impatient Murder Defendant Harold Frotten broke out of jail, left a note explaining: "I'm tired of waiting for that damn trial so went out for a little fresh air." In San Francisco, Charles Jones and Clarence Jacobsen, recaptured after a jail break, explained that they were short of cigarets...
...eyes moisten visibly when the men cheer his public appearances; he cannot make a smooth, cliche-packed speech of thanks, but is more likely to blurt (as he did after the first hit-run raids): "I've never been so damn proud of anybody...
...Henry Bradley, a St. Joseph newspaper publisher. At "noon Kansas City's Jesters Club gave him three more-two the wrong size. Grinning, the President gave the Jesters some outside political talk: "When I hear the Republicans saying I'm doing all right, I know damn well I'm doing wrong. . . ." Two hours later Alf Landon visited him, came out praising him to the skies...