Word: damns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Where's the porter? Damn the beggar...
...force but it's damn close to it. If the kids don't buy a bond out of their $50 they are looked down upon with scorn. Now, how in the hell can you expect these kids to send any money to their wives and children, aside from the monthly allotment, if their last dime has to go towards a bond...
...craft as novelist and poet, Aldous Huxley now has small respect. Says Sebastian in Time Must Have a Stop: "Even the best play or narrative is merely glorified gossip. . . . And lyric poetry? Just 'Ow!' or 'Oo-ooh!'or 'Nyum-nyum!' or 'Damn!' or 'Darling...
...fair shelter and a good roof spotter elected by the men so he's trustworthy. And once you're asleep in your own Anderson it's not too bad because you're so tired you don't give a damn anyway. The bad time is the in-between time. From the moment you knock off you are on edge. Christ, it's all very well, Churchill's talking about well-earned repose after work, but there are things a bloke has to do in the meantime. And even at home-lumme, I like...
...Normandy, a group of U.S. soldiers, dog-tired after a day of marching, fighting, marching again, flopped down in a roadside ditch for a cat nap, landed on six Nazi soldiers already asleep. Grumbled one doughboy, after the Nazis were captured: "Damn it, a G.I.'s work is never done...