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Word: damns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preoccupation with trivia-I mean Coke-machines, launderettes . . . laxatives and baseball-I construed as the American attempt to exclude the bigger reality. If you have a lot of little gadgets to divert attention, the larger issues are unlikely to occur to you, and existence is less satisfying but a damn sight more comfortable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bronx Cheer (Oxon.) | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...social aspirations. At a theater once, he leaped to the defense of two Highland officers who had been pelted with apples from the gallery and greeted with cries of "No Scots! No Scots!" Boswell was so aroused that he jumped up and roared back at the galleryites: "Damn you, you rascals!" But only three months later, he wrote in his journal: "Summer will come when all Scots will be gone. Then you'll grow more English and fine." At his first meeting with Johnson he apologized: "Mr. Johnson, indeed I come from Scotland, but I cannot help it." Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rake's Progress | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...Well, you know Freddy. It was raining so damn hard and everybody was going to watch the game on TV, but well, you know Freddy...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: CABBAGES & KINGS | 11/7/1950 | See Source »

...buildings. Brigadier General Frank A. Allen Jr., assistant commander of the 1st Cavalry Division, sought out General Paik. Said Allen: "The 1st Cavalry Division wants to congratulate you on a wonderful job." Paik, a veteran of the Japanese army, slapped the back of every American, in sight, repeated exultantly: "Damn good job. Damn good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Damn Good Job | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...summed up ECA's complaints in a dispatch to his newspaper. When the Italian press picked up the story, Italy's able ECA Chief Leon Dayton, former president of a Portland, Ore. super market, held a press conference in which he called the Italian government policy "too damn cautious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Too Damn Cautious | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

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