Word: damns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eleanor and her "Protestant divines" read what happened to the Bradshaws . . . and let them go to and among the filthy Chinese; if they get back to the U.S., to how many Communists would they want to grant "Christmas amnesty"? Also her comments about Nixon. Who gives a damn what she thinks? Perhaps it would be well to let Eleanor select the next President. Maybe she would pick Harry Bridges...
...transportable, and easily concealed. Most important of all, they must be "G.I.-proof"; they will be under the care of plain soldiers, who will drop them, kick them, neglect them, spill ketchup on them. If made like laboratory instruments, they will not perform on the battlefield worth a G.I. damn...
When the novice hesitates to make the kind of sharp, precise cuts that the body can heal most easily, the old one remarks caustically: "Now we're back to pecking and scratching." When something seems to go wrong, he cries bluntly: "Grab the damn thing-with something-not with the scissors!" When the young one has pulled himself together, the old one rumbles: "Now you're cooking...
...wonders why a certain anesthetic is not used more often, and the young one chuckles: "It causes bleeding. So do we." Suddenly, the senior surgeon explodes: "Can we get that damn light a little better? It's not satisfactory . . . Holy suffering Moses! Now it's all dark...
...Douglass Wallop (254 pp.; Norton; $3.50), spins this sudsy question in the novelistic washer: Will the seven-year itch spoil the successful marriage of Tom Forester, boy adman? Author Wallop is noted for his 1954 crystal-gazing novel, The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (later the hit musical Damn Yankees), in which he showed how the Devil, with an assist from a Washington Senator outfielder, could raise hob in a baseball stadium; now he shows how the devil in the flesh complicates family life in the Madison Avenue...