Word: damns
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...G.I.s of Task Force 1/9 admit to a growing dread about the persistence of the insurgency. "My initial feeling when I'm told we're going back in there is 'damn.' You sit and shake your head," says Staff Sergeant Bryan Keeping. Tynes tells his crew to pray, "'cause you never know what's going to happen. We could have a good day, and they could have a bad day. Or maybe not." Or maybe both. Late last month, after a joint U.S.-Iraqi sweep of Haifa Street, the Iraqi government announced that 263 had been detained in a sweep...
...boogie to the middle work at this stage? "It's going to be damn hard to change the impressions of independent voters, who already know him, when he has 45% negatives" with them, concedes a Republican strategist. Democratic pollster Mark Penn argues, "Bush has been pursuing a suicidal strategy for the Republican base since the State of the Union, and he's dropping like a stone the entire time. He looks like he's beginning to reorient his campaign towards the center, but it is awful late to begin that...
...crowd after a protester shot a soldier. Six people were killed. It is not surprising, then, that discussions about domestic politics with the drivers usually end with the often-heard Arabic phrase, “Yel’aan hal-balad,” or “Damn this country...
...Read the book, damn it,” Lehane said. “Come on, Daddy needs a new pair of shoes...
...Damn it, religion is so beautiful. It's not just the beauty in the stained glass of churches, the golden domes of mosques or the embroidered Torah scrolls. It's in the faces of believers, illuminated by a mix of comfort and ecstasy. They are seeing into another world. They belong...