Word: damns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week course ended.) He rose at 5:30 a.m., drilled and studied, turned in at 10 p.m., with lights out. His quarters were a hotel room shared with two fellow candidates. The Army shut off publicity, banned photographs; but word got out that Corporal Gable sweated hard, was "a damn good fellow...
Gradually, steadily, doggedly, the snorting cats-drove the forest back. Woodsmen logged the spruce, pine and aspen for corduroy roads over the bogs. "Mister, I thought we'd never get through those first 15 miles. We'd get so damn tired we could hardly drag home, but every afternoon when we got to the store at Charlie's Lake, the lady there'd have a cake for us. Boy, those cakes were good...
...charge. His first step was to tell the workers that as long as the Navy was there they might not get even the 3?-an-hour nightwork bonus WLB had approved. The workers took this in good part. Michael Patrakian, the young strike leader, said: "We are all damn glad it happened. We are all sailors now. We wanted the Navy to take over [instead of an unfair management]. We know Uncle Sam will treat us right...
This is the first time I have ever written a letter to an editor. I enjoy and have enjoyed TIME magazine for a long time. I frequently get peeved at what I read there, often get mad, and yesterday, damn if I didn't blow...
...parachute jumps he landed squarely in the middle of an "enemy" machine-gun nest. Six soldiers rose as a man and clouted him down. "Hot damn," yelled the little corporal astride his chest, "we got a colonel...