Word: damns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passed on to the boots the lessons of his eight years in the Marine Corps. As a machine-gun section leader in Korean combat, McKeon had learned that survival depends on discipline. He had fresh in his mind the grim stricture of the D.I. school: "Let's be damn sure that no man's ghost will ever say, 'If your training program had only done its job.'" And McKeon saw disturbing signs in Platoon 71. "There are still men in this platoon," he fretted, "that could not have made the grade in Korea...
...Most of us are damn fools," he said slowly. "We keep a-fightin' and a-hopin' it will rain, because there was a time they used to compare this country with the limestone country in Kentucky. There was a time you couldn't buy land in Menard County. The only way to get it was to marry it or inherit it. So we've got to stick with it. We're the backbone of the ranchers. We're not the Texans who got rich on oil. And we never had the big spreads...
With the help of his longtime friend, Washington Lawyer Ed Wheeler, Graham hit on the virtually unknown junior Senator from Tennessee. But Estes Kefauver was reluctant. Graham gave him a long pep talk, finally exploded: "Damn it, Estes, don't you want to be Vice President?" That was the speech that launched Kefauver into his celebrated investigation and the deeper waters of U.S. politics. Since then, Graham, who shudders at the thought of Kefauver for President, has begun feeling like Frankenstein...
Cronin skippered the 24-foot Ravens in freezing temperatures which forced three of the six expected boats to remain at home. The low temperatures also forced cancellation of a freshman race against the Coast Guardsmen. Said Cronin: "It was just too damn cold...
Meanwhile, Nixon and his wife flew up to New York for a spell of relaxation, took in Damn Yankees and Fanny, flew back to Washington to receive a noisy greeting from the Republican Women's National Conference. Nixon was rewarded with gales of applause when he remarked "We can win, and I think we will win in 1956." Actress Helen Hayes proclaimed: "That wonderful, attractive, honest and good Dick Nixon!" When reporters boxed