Word: damns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When he got into the match, he was damn tough from that point forward," said McEnroe. "I was hoping to sneak that first set out, and then it would have been a chance to be different. I wouldn't say that the result would be different. When he got into the match it really turned things around. At least to have a set, you have a set to play with, but losing it from that point was too much to overcome at that point," McEnroe added...
Botha: Sentimental. Oh, I'm far from that. Damn worried is a better adjective for my state right now. A shiver went through me when you mentioned gold a minute ago. With all this angry activity reaching levels of Sharpville in 1960 and Soweto in 1976, that miners strike scheduled for August 25 seems to be a real threat. I mean if all 400,000 Black miners walked out, we'd lose more than half of our exports. And we've only got 275,000 police and military officers. How could they quell a worker uprising much larger than...
Aged feelings at 26 are rampant in tennis. At 32, Jimmy Connors, Curren's victim in the semifinals, has realized a bitter truth: "I hate to hear anyone say, 'When I was playing . . .' because nobody gives a damn about when you were playing. Nobody cares about anything but now." In the women's division, where Shirley Temples turn into Gloria Swansons overnight, glory would seem to be especially fleeting, and from third place down it is. "You want to grab every moment and enjoy it fully," says Barbara Potter, a self- described "middle-aged tennis player...
...water there), two deckhands on a workboat sprawl out sunning themselves. "Everywhere you look there's a study team combing over something. I'm surprised they ain't started strip-searching us yet. Everything's historic! Jeez, I bet I'd get busted if I tried to take a damn Coke bottle off this island...
...prayers but then decided not to risk the possibility that the wicked uncle's soul might thus reach heaven. "No./ Up sword, and know thou a more horrid hent;/ When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage . . . / Then trip him, that . . . / his soul may be as damn'd and black/ As hell, whereto it goes...