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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about the opinion, held by some lawyers, that the Administration had a legal right, despite the debt ceiling, to borrow enough money to cover any appropriations voted by Congress? Humphrey answered: "I don't think any of that very interesting legal argument amounts to a damn, because we have got to sell bonds. If you have got some money in your pocket and I offer .you a bond, and somebody says, 'I don't know, there is a big legal argument over whether that is a good bond or not,' you just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Last Week | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

Hillary: "Damn good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 27, 1953 | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

...admit, it's nasty of me to have helped that discovery find the light of day in your soul, but God damn it ... I'm not running as a moral guy. You are ... I'm just going along, trying to live a little before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hollywood Safari | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

...pick a stud farm this time . . . Lady Astor, an ... arrogant woman, being horrified at the idea that she could have married a U.S. Army officer. Nobody in his right mind would believe it ... And last, the driveling of Diana Barrymore. She observes . . . that women are no damn good ("They should be struck regularly, like a gong") . . . She doesn't need to be struck like a gong. Not at all. What she needs is a good, swift kick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 13, 1953 | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

What did it feel like to be there? Said Hillary: "Damn good." Tenzing, a devout Buddhist, said: "I thought of God and the greatness of His work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEPAL: Conquest of Everest | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

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