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Word: damns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...counsel on Lend-Lease. He drafted the original Lend-Lease bill, has since helped administer it. He scrapes up supplies, gets them shipped as often as he can. A government career man since 1938, Oscar Cox has had many bosses in the Capital: they all call him "the smartest damn lawyer in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roll of Honor | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

Flying too damn low and slow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Eyes for the Guns | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...dipped sharply down to the left. Morgan craned his neck far out over the bombsight, pressed his nose against the glass of the compartment and looked down. I peered out of the side. Below was the green, mucky lake and black smoke was rising from it. "That's damn poor bombing," said Morgan. But as the plane swerved further we saw flowers of smoke issuing from the heart of the railway station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: ROUGH ON RABBITS | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

...wrong, Blot," said the Jester, watching the flames lick up a Good Humor. "That's only the burglar alarm in Roger Kent's. The lightning must have set it off in some manner or other. It's pretty damn seldom what happens around here...

Author: By O. E. Zweneus, | Title: Lightning Sets Off, Police Stop Alarm in Lampoon | 7/31/1942 | See Source »

...whole pellmell, damn-the-expense, U.S. war-production program collided in a hundred places at once this week with the steel shortage. The crash could be heard from Berlin to Tokyo. For the U.S., it was news calculated to humiliate the world's most production-proud nation more than a military defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Production Tripped Up | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

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