Word: damns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after Eisenhower's 1952 victory. His party loyalty code soon led him to support policies of the middle-roading Administration, e.g., public housing, reciprocal trade, foreign aid, with the same narrow-eyed gung ho he had mustered against the same programs for 17 years. He did not flinch. "Damn you, you've got to be with us on this one," he twanged at reluctant colleagues. "The President needs your support-and so do I." Many an Administration measure squeaked through because the vigilant Halleck stood in the House well on close votes, collected from errant Republicans for past...
...article on world boycott of ships sailing under the so-called flags of convenience: regardless of flag, these ships contribute immeasurably to the U.S. economy. Many of the vessels were constructed in U.S. shipyards, supplied with equipment manufactured by American labor. Labor generally should count its benefits rather than damn their providers...
...Going further with that power of suggestion," Shelley continues, "you recall the little slot behind the seat in front of you? There's one item in this little slot which is the most ominous item in the whole damn plane. It's a little, innocent-looking white bag. There are instructions on the back in three different languages, French, Italian and Hebrew. And all they're saying, freely translated, is Tn here, slob. In here...
...confess that the act he originally planned for himself was never meant for the likes of The Ed Sullivan Show. When he was discharged from the Navy as an asthmatic in 1943, he was 17, and he entered Chicago's Goodman Theater to study acting. "I was pretty damn good," he confesses further, but he would end up working at a Daytona Beach, Fla. hotel. ("I ran around with a volleyball bothering people who didn't want to be bothered...
...against his numerous enemies. They included "poisonous cads" (British peers), "blundering savages and cosmopolitan riff raff" (Russian Communists), "filthy greasy hot Armenians," the "German herd [who] do not reason . . . that is why they take refuge in music," "eunuchs," like Thomas Carlyle, or "screaming Eunuchs," like Hitler, and, of course, "damn fool Editors...