Word: damns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said Agnew, "would bring their objectives into severe question." Dong and Agnew each made a tactical error. The Communists, obviously misunderstanding American politics, damaged the M-day cause in the U.S. by embracing it. The Vice President anachronistically evoked the rigid anti-Communism of the 1950s by trying to damn M-day participants with guilt by association...
...because they want to be, and many take out their resentments on their not-so-friendly hosts. "They're all gooks," says a sergeant at Tay Ninh, using the derogatory term once reserved for the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese. "Not one of them is worth a damn." Other epithets include "dinks" and "slopes." Peasants are obviously unhappy when U.S. tanks crunch through their rice fields or helicopter gunners fire at water buffalo-or at the peasants themselves. American affluence, symbolized by the PXs bulging with U.S. wares, stands in sharp contrast to the widespread poverty in Viet...
...does not feel a constant compulsion to bring in disparate guests to hold his audience. Senator Edmund Muskie soloed for 37 minutes. Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr.-who rattled off lines like, "I am probably the only living American, black or white, that just doesn't give a damn"-holds the record so far with a run of 39 minutes...
...terrible" the girl asked me hopefully. I belched, and had to admit that she had a point. "Damn right, damn right," I said, and slipped off to order two more burgers and another pitcher of beer...
...jacket. Then, as he headed onstage, another aide added the final touch: he refilled the star's coffee mug. Even those in the back of the studio audience heard the clink of ice cubes in his cup. Iced coffee, an associate suggested, but surely the whole house knew damn well it was Johnnie Walker Red Label. As the clap board proclaimed, this was the Joe Namath Show, Take...