Word: darn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came out with high score in another contest-alcoholism-and left the other nationalities trailing behind. We Irish don't do things halfway, particularly in a drinking contest. We just get in there and win-it's only when it's too late we find the darn stuff may be intoxicating...
...stretch turn, he wove and darted toward the rail with the sure-footed skill of an All-American halfback. Silky shot under the wire a widening three lengths in front of his stablemate, Harcall. Said Harcall's jockey, Bill Boland: "He ran by me so fast, he darn near sucked me under...
...long ago, NBC's Steve Allen scribbled a note to ABC's top Cowpoke James (Maverick) Garner, 29. "Somebody told me you carry a .45. and I got pretty scared. I thought it was your rating." It darn near was. Maverick Garner was giving Allen and his fellow TV Titan Ed Sullivan plenty to worry about on the Sunday-at-8 spot. Last week, for the fifth time. Maverick (7:30 to 8:30) outrode both of them in the Trendex derby-for what that is worth (and to TV and ad moguls it still seems...
FAST TAX WRITE-OFF for Idaho Power Co.'s Hells Canyon Darn (TIME, April 15 et seq.) will be canceled if Congress passes bill by Oregon Congressman Charles O. Porter to wipe out all fast write-offs, except for new weapons, retroactive...
...guys bowling," complained TV Critic John Crosby when he watched the show for the first time. "The pins go down-or don't go down, as the case might be-and that's about it." But like millions of other televiewers, Crosby kept right on watching. "The darn thing does have a sort of morbid interest," he discovered. "First one guy's ahead, then the other one. Pretty soon you find yourself rooting for one or the other...