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Word: damns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...working-class people trying to make a decent living and it's damn hard," Newby, who is currently unemployed, said, gesturing towards the non-union projectionist turning on the first reel of Fellini...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Union May Act Against Local Cinema | 6/16/1977 | See Source »

...ever released from his self-imposed servitude, says Jordan, he would consider teaching or writing-or becoming an ambassador, just to "shake 'em up." Powell says he wants to raise hunting dogs: "I'm going to be the shrewdest damn political observer that has ever raised dogs in Vienna, Ga." Could it be? An ambassador who loathes neckties and a quipster with no audience for his one-liners but a pack of droopy-eared hounds? With Ham and Jody, as Washington is learning, anything is possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The President's Boys | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

...might do well to consider another action next year: a boycott of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, until such time as a reform of the group enables it to be more than simply a mechanism for legitimating the shareholding actions of Harvard, which still essentially does whatever it damn well pleases, ACSR or no ACSR...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ratner Replies | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

...BEING CALLED A TERRORIST. I don't give a damn what I'm called. I'm used to it. Let me explain. In the '40s, the Germans were killing our brethren. No Jews were allowed to come into this country. We begged the British, "Open the gates; let them come in." What did we do? We started to fight, to open the gates and allow our people to be saved from destruction. We started to fight to save our people. Now take [Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser] Arafat. What is his aim? He said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: A PALESTINE STATE: 'INCONCEIVABLE ' | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

...with the phoney accent and the once-broken nose asks you to pay. In the middle of kitchen sits a meat grinder, a perfectly normal meat grinder with a lot of perfectly normal ground meat coming out of it. The only abnormal thing is that there's so damn much of it: at least 150 pounds or so, enough meat to build your own cow. Too much meat...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: 'Most determined case of suicide I've ever seen' | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

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