Word: damns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Click. Click. Click. Off North Carolina, Worthington was manning an echo-sounding receiver on a regular project when he heard a loud hammering. "Cut out the racket," he yelled. "I can't hear a damn thing." After everyone on board lad indignantly denied hammering, a herd of six sperm whales slowly broke water near...
...security requirements that raised reasonable doubt, not of his loyalty, but of his judgment. Scientist Evans countered, in a two-page minority report, that the atomic scientist's judgment, while sometimes bad, was better than in 1947 when a Truman loyalty board cleared him, and "to damn him now and ruin his career and his service, I cannot...
...makes writers, producers and directors aware of complaint trends and of requests by such groups as the American Foundation for the Blind, e.g., don't use cliches like "blind-drunk" and "blind as a bat." But he tries to resist most demands by touchy viewers, even risks letting "damn" or "hell" stay in a script if it seems unforced. "If we don't reflect the real world around us," he says, "radio and TV are going to be awfully dull, and competitively, we'll get clobbered...
...station owners, haberdashers, statehouse employees and wealthy, retired businessmen. If some are not all-out lovers of opera, all have been touched on their civic pride, or calculate the potential profits to be had if Santa Fe becomes the Salzburg of the Southwest. "I don't know a damn thing about opera," said the Opera Association's president; Walter R. Barker, a former Chicago industrialist, "but I know a good thing when...
...manager doesn't have confidence in his ballplayers, even when they're going badly, they're not going to have confidence in themselves. And when a ballplayer's confidence is gone, you haven't got a ballplayer-I don't give a damn how great he is. That's why I try never to lose confidence in the best or the least of my players. The rest of it, a ballplayer has to do for himself. He takes the bat up to the plate. He fields the ball. He throws the ball...