Word: damns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...America are pretty incomprehensible. (No matter how many copies of a best-seller are sold, the publisher usually announces that he only breaks clear because of the sale of movie rights.) Why couldn't something similar to the Rinchart paper editions be used for all new books? There are damn few books coming out each day of which the prospective purchaser is confident he wants a permanent copy. Sales resistance should decrease when not only the price is more reasonable but the buyer doesn't feel he's making a permanent commitment to his bookshelf. Rinchart! Rinchart...
Major General William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, wartime boss of the OSS, announced in Los Angeles: "It's not a cold war. It's a damn...
...from which it quoted, also intended no hurt to the memory of a great soldier. General Patton's own book, War As I Knew It, edited by Mrs. Patton, quotes him as saying, when the weather cleared after he had ordered Chaplain O'Neill to pray: "God damn! Look at the weather. That O'Neill sure did some potent praying...
...captain closed the breakfast with a final order: "After 1 o'clock, or about 25 minutes thereafter, I don't give a damn what you do, but I want you to stay sober until then...
...that two or three atomic bombs would render the United States uninhabitable." Then he hit "the campaign to make us believe this is 'just another bomb' . . . Deliberately setting out to downgrade the bomb is the worst." Then he flailed away towards the east: "Frankly I am getting damn well tired of those people in Washington and the opinion factories of New York who are forever trying to tell the American people how they should feel, what emotions they ought to have...