Word: damns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When the club that does emerge victorious skates around the Garden ice holding up the small pot of beans (no real beans but a damn realistic-looking pot), the crowd cheers. But the celebration is not only for the winners, although they certainly love to bask in the crowd's adulation--it is a ritual affirmation of the sport itself...
...happy because of the circumstances, the fact that we were coming off some inconsistent performances, and because we played a pretty damn good basketball team," Roby said...
Western conservative critics are missing the point. Lown knows that Sakharov has been treated poorly. He knows (hopefully) that Soviet public opinion doesn't matter a damn. He's probably as well-informed (or better) on Soviet history and government than most Western political leaders. What Lown's detractors should concentrate on instead is the mental copout which Lown and millions like him in the West use every day to justify a dangerous misreading of the superpower rivalry...
Football is ideally suited for television and ordinarily susceptible to technology. "When you have the technology, damn it, you should use it," says Dallas Cowboys General Manager Schramm, a member of the National Football League's five-man "competition committee," which every off-season invades the Hawaiian islands in the pursuit of progress. The other mad scientists are Miami and Pittsburgh Coaches Don Shula and Chuck Noll, and Atlanta and Cincinnati Executives Eddie LeBaron and Paul Brown. "Every now and then," says Schramm, "we'll move out onto the grass and play like we're football players. Here...
Arafat was right, in a way, about the cowboy logic. But his understanding of the word cowboy and an American's understanding of it are entirely different. Arafat meant the word as an indictment. Americans might take it as a compliment. They would think, "Damn straight we used cowboy logic, if that's ( what you want to call it." They might be delighted that they had been able to do a "cowboy" thing. It proved that the old American cliche can reappear now and then. It was not as if the U.S. had turned Rambo loose upon the Palestine Liberation...