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Word: damns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...waddled back toward what appeared to be a vault and went in. About five minutes later the vault disgorged him. As he came back to the window, "Deputy" was clutching two of those damn blue forms...

Author: By Jerald R. Gerst, | Title: Getting Excised | 11/25/1968 | See Source »

...this time, another portly type had materialized from behind that damn counter. A different approach: fatherly. He came up and, emphasizing his points with pats on the shoulder, issued the ultimate rebuttal. "Son, there are ten thousand every year who don't get their bill. So the Commonwealth passed a law requiring everyone to come in and ask for his bill. So you've got no legal leg to stand on. And if you don't pay, you can never register a vehicle here again...

Author: By Jerald R. Gerst, | Title: Getting Excised | 11/25/1968 | See Source »

Alice said she is never upset by the band's occasionally off-color antics. "There was a time when they apologized any time somebody said 'damn,' but they ignore me now. Half the things I don't understand, and a lot of the things that I do understand I just don't hear any more. Like the show at the Princeton game this year--I didn't understand that, and anybody who did had a dirty mind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Lady With a Cigar? She's 'Mom' to the Band | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

Sickening Collision. A water-pollution spot uses the background sound ( a flushing toilet to dramatize the condition of many U.S. rivers and streams; an antilitter campaign depicts a community overrun by snorting pigs. In the "Give a Damn" campaign for the New York Urban Coalition, a black narrator suggests to white viewers: "Send your kid to a ghetto for the summer. Want to see the pool? C'mon. The kids clog up the sewer with garbage, open a hydrant . . . You don't want your kids to play here this summer? Then don't expect ours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Commercials: The Spoilers | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

...likely that Siegel will ever get a spectacular to direct, partly because his movies have seldom done very good business, partly because the studio executives do not care for his bellicose, independent ways. "The brass made me put a prologue and epilogue on Invasion of the Body Snatchers that damn near ruined the whole thing," he recalls. "And after the first screening of Riot in Cell Block 11, all the executives filed out without saying a single word. I sometimes feel like a prophet without honor in my own land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blood Sport | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

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