Word: damns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will have to live with communist countries. I think we will have to find a modus operendi between the United States and the Soviet Union. We should not try to change the internal government of these communist countries--it isn't our business to do this. There is damn little we can do about relations but it is not too early to start adapting our feelings to accepting Russia...
...little else. They lean over backward to live up to the letter of their labor contracts with Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, and pay fancy salaries for labor-relations and public-relations advisers. "Hell," snorted a plantation owner recently, "they are so damn busy at Bishop & Merchant with labor-relations meetings that they've forgotten how to raise sugar...
...president of the Industrial Welfare Society). He was called "The Industrial Prince." His still-persistent stammer made public speaking a wearisome chore, yet on one occasion, while rehearsing a speech at Wembley, he endeared himself to a crowd of startled workmen by stammering into a microphone, "This d-d-damn thing won't work," just as it started working. He played a good game of left-handed tennis, shot golf in the 80s, liked to hunt, and was content to let his brother Edward make the headlines...
...guess." He thought for a moment, and added: "But even on those days, Mac, it's still Korea. It's cold when it freezes and muddy when it don't and . . . say, Mac, do you think that business there at Panmunjom will ever amount to a damn...
Asked if he questioned the right of the Senate to change its legislative mind, Arkansas' Senator William Fulbright said: "We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes...