Word: damns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sick unto death of our adolescent approach to foreign affairs, and especially our pitiful fear of what the rest of the world thinks of us. Personally, I don't give a damn what the rest of the world thinks...
Three days bread & water for your Pentagon correspondent ... for calling the "Air Force Navy" a flotilla of admirals' gigs [TIME, Aug. 24]. Any boot knows that: The captain rides in a gig The admiral rides in a barge It doesn't go a damn bit faster, but it makes the old bastard feel large...
...gardens of the ornate Marble Palace gazing into the waters of a pool. His father, the Shah of Persia, came upon him and demanded: "What are you doing, son?" "Nothing, father, just standing here thinking," answered the boy. The Shah's face clouded, and he roared: "Thinking! God damn it, one day you're going to be Shah and you'll have to act, not think." He booted his son into the water...
...Quinquela took the title of its "Rearest Admiral." He still occasionally wears a blue admiral's uniform with gold screws for buttons, signifying his allegiance to the Order of the Screw which he founded (current membership: 150). Explains Quinquela: "I long ago discovered that anyone worth a damn, anyone with sensitivity, is usually missing a screw...
...convince the P.W.s that the U.S. started the war, that the Chinese "volunteers" were their friends, that the U.S. was conducting germ warfare and had massacred North Korean and Chinese prisoners. "Physically," one ex-prisoner said of his Chinese camp, "it was all right, but mentally it was damn rough." Almost to a man, the returnees reported that it was the North Koreans who had abused them with wanton brutality...