Word: damns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speaks of more & more sacrifices. Sacrifices-hell! Is it a sacrifice to defend one's self against impending disaster? What a ludicrous and tragic situation that soldiers must beg, actually beg, for arms to defend people who, by their very actions, don't seem to give a damn. The fine American institution of the Sunday motor trip is far more important than a boatload of supplies to the tankmen and aviators in Egypt. Sacrifices? Look to the Chinese people and learn what the word truly means...
Again in 1660 The Grand Assembly resolved to have a college, like Harvard for the education of ministers. It was called "The Colledge", but didn't exist till William and his wife Mary granted a charter in 1693. An English official answered the colonist's plea with "Damn your souls--make tobacco", but the charter went through...
...uttered girlish spontaneities like "I'm so warm I'd like to rip this dress right down to the navel." But on the air she was a luminously sensitive Juliet. Ogling his daughter fondly in his dressing room afterwards, Old John cried: "You can bet the whole damn family was listening in and proud of the job she did. It was a damn good job, too; and if you don't believe that...
...Damn it, men, things are in a hell of a fix and a tough job's got to be done, he said in substance after Franklin Roosevelt and Donald Nelson named him tsar to produce and conserve rubber. The actual words are the ones the hardboiled, red-faced, Irish Bill Jeffers spoke one day in January 1922 to trainmen clustered around a red-hot, pot-bellied stove in the Hanna, Wyo. depot...
Players' Club artistes entertained Sir Max with nostalgic Victorian music-hall ballads. Hit of the evening was The Ballad of Sam Hall, which ends: "An' I'll see you all in 'ell, an' I 'opes you frizzle well-damn your eyes...