Word: damns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...business faculty at Peoria's Bradley University, said the jurors became so bored that they spent long hours idly gazing out hotel windows. When a bailiff ordered one man to close his window, reports Albanito, the edgy juror shouted at him: "If you so much as touch that damn window, I'll throw a chair right through...
...RIGHT!" I said, "YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT...
...moon? Congressman Olin Teague, a member of the House space committee, answers with a question: Why did Lindbergh go to Paris? "He didn't give a damn about Paris," says Teague, "but he gave a damn about how he got there. The same applies to the moon." During a debate about a small appropriation for aircraft research 60 years ago, Teague notes, some Congressmen predicted that the airplane would never contribute anything to the economy and would remain only "a toy for millionaires...
...stairs from the President's quarters to the foyer. The Marine Band was playing ruffles and flourishes, and all the people were gathered there waiting for the President and his party to enter, and everything looked so exciting and so beautiful. I turned to Hubert and said 'Damn,' and he looked at me and said 'Damn.' I can't say there wasn't a moment of regret...
...tediously, every character replies in the best spirit of medieval modern psychoanalysis. It's as if some Pinter couple, perverted, got its kicks from holding its quarrels in medieval costumes. "You led too many civil wars against me" chuckles Henry opening a beer. "And damn near won the last one!" quips Eleanor in her curler...