Word: damns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...told LIFE magazine that he bought a Rolls-Royce because its powder-blue paint job matched his wife's favorite hat. Then there was H.L. Hunt, who, a Dallas editor once said, "would be the most dangerous man in America if he wasn't such a damn hick...
...light blue T shirt that read across the chest, THANKS AMERICA FOR A GREAT GAMES, and added on the back BUT WHAT ABOUT THE TV COVERAGE?), Thompson was greeted by Princess Anne. "Daley, what did she say to you?" a reporter asked. Answered Thompson: "She said I was a damn good-looking guy." So began another stand-up comedy routine...
...reforms. He told Republican Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming that a flat $4 billion lump-sum grant might get his approval. "You give me that," Reagan told Simpson. "That can be an acceptable bill." The delighted Simpson passed this news to Speaker O'Neill, who replied, "Send the damn thing over. We'll go to conference." Despite the obituaries, the bill was thus not yet dead, but it was not healthy either. Only a starkly simple political reality had jeopardized the long-awaited attempt to do something about America's chaotic situation along the Mexican border: each...
...carrying placards bearing the names of nations? "We got a lot of steam from the committee on this," Wolper said. "They said, 'You can't pick girls just on the way they look.' I'm in show business, folks. I don't give a damn about the rules. This is a show. I'm putting on a running event. You look good, you can't be an Olympic ard bearer." As it happened, they not looked good, they done good...
...majority in the first vote (2,501 to 1,253). The intensity of black feeling over the dual-primary issue was demonstrated in almost brutal fashion when Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young spoke against the Jackson plank. Other black delegates booed and shouted throughout Young's brief speech. "You damn turncoat!" screamed one black delegate. "Uncle Tom!" cried another. Sweating profusely, Young looked shaken as he left the podium...