Word: damns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have sounded to those who first heard his stories centuries ago. "The first essential," Pound had said, "is the narrative movement . . . Everything that stops the reader must go . . ." Sometimes Rouse did stop the reader ("NO, NO! Doc," Pound would cry), and sometimes he became entirely too free ("Just plain damn bad. Careless, frivolous. Missed opportunities all over . . ."). But gradually, his work was finished to suit even Pound's taste. "Homer speaks naturally," Rouse said, "and we must do the same...
...give." Still, after 30 years in elective public office, he assured reporters, he felt no older than 28 and had many years to enjoy his impending retirement. What are his retirement plans? He is just going to have a good time, the President answered, and do just as he damn pleases...
Israel was no longer a cause but a country. With normalcy came sobriety. As a cause, Israel had worked in an atmosphere of high enthusiasm and damn-the-expense. As an established state, Israel had to balance its books...
...backs down when it comes to chastizing his own parishioners; he's satisfied with Sunday Morning Christianity. So although Captive City ends with a short tirade against sin by the Tennessee Theotonius, Senator Kefauver, one gets the feeling that few people in Kennington--or anywhere else--really give a damn...
...going through a tedious process. They had to push aside a metal cover on a vertical write-in slot 1½ in. long, reach up (the slot was 5 ft. 9 in. from the floor) to write a name vertically, from the bottom of the slot to the top. "Damn near had to stand on their heads, I guess," said Ramsey County (St. Paul) Auditor Eugene A. Monick. At many polling places where machines were not used, the supply of ballots ran out. Some voters stood in line for hours, finally wrote their choice on scratch paper initialed...