Word: damns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sternest warnings in the nation's history against violent behavior. New York's Mayor John Lindsay promised to shake up police assignments so that, within a year, 40% more men would be walking beats (instead of riding desks). "We'll whack away at crime with every damn thing we've got," said Lindsay. Meanwhile, a county grand jury in Nashville urged that the death penalty and heavy prison sentences be imposed to halt "the avalanche of crime and arson that has come upon us," and suggested that the city's 488-man police force...
...reason for this change is that without graduate deferments under the "oldest-first" system, nearly two-thirds of the men drafted starting in June would be between 22 and 25. And in the words of Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey, "the older men are no damn good." The army considers them less malleable, less physically able, and less receptive to training and the military system in general than the more desirable 19-year-olds...
Mayer's inversions are often tragically funny in context; Drew again, on being excluded from the business operations: "Them boys is getting a damn sight too cute." Fisk's dialog masterfully combines bad grammar and vernacular with innumerable phrases from the Bible. "Poor suffering bastards," he yells at the crowd he has cheated, "You want your money? It has gone where the woodbine twineth...
...inclined to be brassy, and Ron Porter's direction is nothing if not that. The quantity of dancing in Anything Goes is phenomenal. Some of the actors can't stop dancing even when the music ends. They float across the stage when they should walk, but they float so damn well, and so fast, that the trick is turned. And since the show is musically solid from "You're the Top" to "Take Me Back to Manhattan," all complaints have got to be qualified, if not out of existence, then temporarily out of sight...
...autobiographical account of how she and her father adventured through the Seven Seas for 17 years. The only flaws were an obvious lack of nautical knowledge and the fact that friends remembered her as a California schoolgirl. Shrugged Joan, as the Book-of-the-Month Club offered refunds: "Any damn fool can be accurate-and dull...