Word: damns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sometimes consumers encounter sales clerks who cannot find the "on" button on electronic equipment they are selling. A clerk handling vacuum cleaners in a department store confesses to a customer, "I don't know a damn thing about these." Over in the shoe department, clerks nowadays may simply dump boxes at customers' feet rather than helping them with the merchandise...
...ashore there in 1965. Over the next decade, he saw buddies die at such hot spots as Hue and Foxtrot Ridge, and he was wounded three times by rockets and mortar fire. "We fought a hell of a war," he declares, "and until now, Hollywood didn't give a damn about getting it right...
...bright red Budweiser suspenders. Dallas? Known him for years. "It's hard to think that kid ever got into trouble. They just pushed him against the wall. He'd walk away from trouble if he could." The whole mess baffles Bar Owner Phyllis Sans. "It's just a damn shame it had to happen. Two men are dead, and one man's running for his life," she sighs, "but he's no desperado...
...just listened -- and told his anecdotes." Most of the advice -- to fire Chief of Staff Don Regan and claim the whole Iran arms deal was a mistake -- has gone unheeded. "I don't like lynch mobs," the President told some friends. Read: Regan stays. "Not by a damn sight am I going to accept the status quo," he declared at one of last week's sessions. Translation: Reagan is not going to stop experimenting because he fumbled...
...article published Monday in The Washington Post, Buchanan praised North as a hero and blasted Republicans for deserting Reagan over the scandal, saying that with a few exceptions, "the whole damn pack has headed for the tall grass...