Word: damns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second, in two chapters called "The Under-ground Government" and "Loyalty by the Dollar," Rogge attempts to link the entire Red Scare to the growth of American monopolies and the alleged domination of the government by monopolists. It may be that monopolists don't give a damn for civil liberties, but Rogge dwells too much on the economic motivations for persecution. Even among the poorer citizens who do not hold "conglomerate acquisitions," there has been a decline in interest in civil rights. It is as much a question of political unsophistication and international queasiness as it is of mergers...
...stimulates the growth of follicles in the ovary and makes ovulation possible; in the male, it stimulates tubules in the testes that produce sperm. Dr. Li isolated it from the pituitary glands of freshly killed sheep. Since other researchers were looking for it, too, Dr. Li says: "I was damn lucky. I hit on the right method." With the same sort of "luck," he was also the first to isolate four other hormones, including ACTH. More work will have to be done on FSH before it can be tried on humans as a cure for some forms of infertility...
...tricky things, and Stillman care is cautions. Smith stayed in the small respiratory ward three weeks; the first week was the best. He discovered a batch of jig-saw puzzles thoughtfully placed on a shelf in the ward, and completed the lot, though all were marked with "seven damn pieces missing" or similar discouraging comments...
...kill the Federal oleo tax. It has been a hard and unusual fight. A recent House measure wanted to give oleo an attractive deep Sunkist orange hue. An eminent lobbyist has stated that yellow is "butter's own color," and that if margarine makers wanted a color they could damn well dye their stuff green. The oleo-makers retaliated to this with a barrage of bright yellow advertisements. One southerner fought heroically for butter until he found that his constituents were growing the chief ingredients of margarine, upon which discovery he neatly reversed his field and became an oleo...
...know all the fuss they made about that owl," says Jim insignantly. "Well these damn hawks we got up here kill twice as many birds, and have you ever seen anyone go after them...