Word: damns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...today--though it remains prudent compared to most private investors--Harvard is buying more stocks. "We think stocks got over-valued from 1950 to 1972, and now there's a pendulum swing the other way," Putnam says. "We're taking this as a long-term opportunity to get some damn good stocks cheap," Cabot says...
...calls in the middle of the night from as far away as Australia. And his phone bill often totals over $400. "People making illegal calls from phone booths look up the last name in the book and charge them to me," he explains. "I don't pay a damn one of them." Zounds...
...back it's over for me. Stalin liked leading Americans by the nose that way. Well, why say lead by the nose? That's too strong¬ ly put. He only fooled those who wanted to be fooled. The Americans don't give a damn about us, and in order to live and sleep soundly, they'll believe anything...
...also offensive. For lack of news, the Crimson resorted to advertisement through sex to make articles appealing. The cover displays Hugh Hefner surrounded by several Playboy bunnies; the titles of the top stories run: "The Habit of Balling," "James Bond Reduced to a Prissy Liberalism," and "Hot Damn: Texas Has a Whorehouse." The cover and titles are catchy for their aggressive male sexual connotation. The Crimson seems to believe that it can disregard its female readership with impunity...
...practice. The removal of 20,000 troops from East Germany would still leave 400,000 to 500,000 Soviet servicemen in the country. The withdrawal of 1,000 tanks would leave 6,000 Soviet tanks. Says a West German foreign ministry official: "Strategically, this doesn't mean a damn thing. The numbers are so huge that this is a small bite." The Soviets, moreover, could pull out support personnel like military police, cooks and clerks. What is more, if the 20,000 troops are moved just inside the western Soviet border, they would hardly constitute any less...