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Word: damns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supernation, with all its money and technology, is going to be beaten by Australia in the America's Cup yacht race, and the Yanks are taking it with all the grace of a baby deprived of its rattle. I am sure that most Americans do not give a damn about the race or the "tin pot" that is the prize, but I wonder how they feel about the slur this episode places on the name of Americans and their country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 19, 1983 | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

That snappy performance reflected the damn-the-expense attitude of Alan Bond, 45, the swashbuckling tycoon from Perth (real estate, mining, oil), who heads the Australia II syndicate. Bond, a onetime sign painter, is making his fourth try for the Cup, a record surpassed only by Britain's indomitable Sir Thomas Lipton earlier in the century. In his latest bid, Bond could spend as much as $3.5 million for a prize initially valued at only 100 guineas (about $70 by current reckoning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Here Come the Aussies! | 8/29/1983 | See Source »

...wind: "My wife never has to worry about me being out in a bar or chasing women, because I'm always out here chasing fish. But this green drake gets a lot of fellas in trouble. I've got laid off three jobs because of that damn thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Idaho: The hatch of the Green Drake | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...Bing: "Damn if I know. Just throwing us curves, I guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Idaho: The hatch of the Green Drake | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...this or that May fly with the words, "Well, I hate to say this, but I don't believe those were Baetis propinquas." Or Ephemerella infrequens. Or Epeorus albertae. But Lempke reserves his finest pronunciation and greatest admiration for Ephemerella grandis, a.k.a. the green drake. "They're damn pretty, for bugs," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Idaho: The hatch of the Green Drake | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

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