Word: damns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that, bald, 62-year-old Congressman Lanham leaped to his feet. "Damn son of a bitch!" he shouted. "Black son of a bitch!" With fists clenched, he raced around the committee table. Bespectacled, 59-year-old Attorney Patterson held to his witness seat. Lanham broke past two attendants before a pair of Capitol policemen managed to grab him. Subdued, Congressman Lanham returned to his place, abruptly adjourned the hearing...
...into the nearest foxhole. Who in hell was in there but Eddie Craig. He was lying there with a phone and a notebook, talking to a runner. He was so quiet and collected he could have been at a desk in the Pentagon. 'We got to get those damn pillboxes!' I yelled at him. 'Now sit down there a minute,' Craig says, 'we'll get to 'em.' He just looked at me and smiled. In a few minutes we had the pillboxes. There's one thing about going to war with...
...Marine officer: "A kid reports for boot camp and we challenge the s.o.b., we dare him to try and be a Marine. We give him so much of that in boot camp-and even flunk some of them out-that when he gets out, he's the proudest damn guy in the world, because he can call himself a United States Marine. He's nothing but a damn private but you'd think he's just made colonel...
...been waiting until prices dropped before buying a rug, a radio or a new dress, decided there was no use waiting. Others were like a man in a Denver store who said angrily: "I don't like to be in the hoarder class, but I'll be damned if I'll stand by and watch everyone else buy up scarce items at regular prices and then have to pay more for the same damn thing next week...
...last three weeks have been pretty rough. We're getting help here now. That's something we sure didn't have when we started. What makes it so difficult here is -[the captain halted for a second, then resumed]-that you, can't tell the damn North Koreans from the South Koreans. That caused a lot of slaughter...