Word: darn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...needs, the Government last week was reportedly considering resumption of meat rationing. The manufacture of evening dresses, double-breasted coats and pleated trousers is prohibited. In Ottawa a Government spokesman said: "There certainly is no abundance of women's & children's clothing. . . . We are pretty darn short of things...
...past had been pretty darn fine, at that. Lawrenceville and Princeton and M.I.T." --Collier's, December...
...Good-humored Toney Penna, who tensed up on one hole and asked the gallery to start talking because "things are too darn quiet." The gallery whooped it up and Penna missed a 10 ft. putt. He then went on a practice green and canned 96 in succession...
...very well, Churchill's talking about well-earned repose after work, but there are things a bloke has to do in the meantime. And even at home-lumme, I like that word for the way I live-there are letters to write and socks to wash or darn, and you can't do anything really, what with cocking your ear and being ready to streak for the Anderson...
...Someday when Pfc. John M. Stevens darn near fractures a vertebra hurrying down the gangplank onto Manhattan we'll be there to plant a nice lipstickish American kiss on his pouty lips. Cheerio, Johnnie, we'll be seeing...