Word: damns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Watson's article exploded another royal myth. Reports of the King's death gave as his final words "How stands the empire?" According to Watson, George V later muttered, "God damn you," apparently to no one in particular, as he lapsed into a narcotics-induced sleep...
ANYONE WITH THAT much self-awareness absolutely shames 90 percent of the real hacks out there, who pirouette about with pretentions of literary grace. Crude as hell, but damn if you don't know what he means. King grabs you in places that make you squirm, places you'd rather not talk about, but nevertheless he grabs you and WHAM! That's why his writing is so good even when it's dealing with the most ridiculous of subjects: he knows you, knows your culture, knows where to slice and to squeeze...
...never in my life been so excited. I don't give a damn about the glitz--it's the potential for change," he said of Kennedy's victory...
...weather. After the last game, I realized that He must hate the DH rule so much that He only favors the Sox within the American League. (I must, of course, now also entertain the possibility that either he doesn't exist at all or doesn't give a damn about baseball.) We are left alone with our pain...
Although experimental work on mammals is proceeding slowly, Richard Mulligan, who has been practicing gene therapy on mice at the Whitehead Institute, is optimistic. "We are pretty damn close," he says. "We have retrovirus vectors that transfer efficiently. It looks like we can infect the ( appropriate types of cells reasonably safely." But, he concedes, he has not yet been able to induce the genes to "turn on" and order the cells to produce the missing proteins...