Word: damns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feel like Columbus," McCurdy said. "I don't know what's over there on the other side. Maybe the damn thing just drops...
...nonauto] companies. But when I was 14 decided to go into the auto business. [At Princeton University] I went for a master's degree in engineering and I built an automatic transmission, a torque converter, by hand; that was my thesis. [At Ford] I got pretty damn good, just through the passage of time. After 32 years I really became, in my trade, a brilliant brain surgeon and suddenly I find myself dismissed, shocked, and my thoughts were: "I don't want to operate on a guy's feet, because I won't be good...
...visited in his penthouse by his tailor, Preston Callins. They began arguing about the price of suits. When Newton complained that he was being ripped off, Callins said, "Oh, baby, don't feel that way." Once again, apparently, the faintly belittling word infuriated Newton. "Nobody calls me no damn baby!" he cried. He seized a revolver, according to Orloff, and pistol whipped Callins, fracturing his skull...
...never cried before over a game, but that one was just too much to handle," said Howard, a Visual and Environmental Studies concentrator from Eliot House. "We worked so hard, and the team really has its act together. It's a damn shame...
Blair House has heard just about every kind of talk before, some strong and some gentle. WilHam Tecumseh Sherman, the man who later marched to the sea, was married there in 1850. One day in 1861 at breakfast, Navy Captain David Glasgow Farragut ("Damn the torpedoes-full speed ahead!") was told he was to command the Union attack against New Orleans. And in a front room Robert E. Lee turned down command of the Union armies, a melancholy prelude to many visits by the anguished Lincoln, who used to prowl the area...