Word: damns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed like a huge cover-up. No one in the administration seemed to give a damn No one had seen him, few people even had an inkling of what he looked like...
...They don't like to make commitments, they like to leave their options open," Wylie said. "They like to feel that, if in the year 2000 they want to do something, they damn well will," he added...
...summit meetings, so besieged were they by calls from would-be banqueters. "People will kill for a ticket to the state dinner," declared one amused businessman. Sighed a senior White House official: "If we invited everyone who claims an undeniable right to come, we'd have to hold the damn thing in the Capital Center"?a reference to Washington's 19,000-seat sports arena...
...hiring that legitimately enraged the HRDC--that his undergraduate proposals appeared half-hearted, and perhaps a bit insensitively thrown-together. But while I sympathize with the HRDC's fears, and respect it for wanting to protect future undergraduates from a Loeb administrative body that might not give a damn about their needs, I can't accept their position. Robert Brustein is too fine a critic and teacher to fit into the ogre mold they've cast...
...recent years the pressure took a greater toll, and his ruminations about the sport became more strident. "This game of football used to be pretty important to me. It isn't any more. Now it's just damn near everything," he said last month. The past season was especially frustrating: his young Buckeyes had a mediocre, for him, record of 7-3-1, and he lost his third straight game to archrival Michigan. What's more, the losses came after Hayes introduced a passing offense, a strategy he used to ridicule as "frivolous...