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Word: darn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hallelujah the Hills! A man chops vigorously at the trunk of a tree containing 36 girls. Somebody grabs somebody's nose in a nutcracker and darn near twists it off. A yokel sits on his front porch and earnestly whittles a new seat for a two-holer. Two young men stalk a birthday cake and then pump it full of bullets. One of them runs slowly across the screen, stark-naked. "Cuckoo!" says a clock on the sound track. "Cuckoo!" And it really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Where the Hell Are We? | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

Commending the Democrats on their policy of direct contact with the voters, Dumaine said that one reason for the lack of party unity is that the "darn Republicans won't blow their own horn." He attributed this to the timidity of the wealthy when they attempt to address themselves to the general public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOP State Chairman Lauds Electioneering Of Democratic Party | 10/22/1963 | See Source »

Princeton probably has the edge in experience and finesse and is a proper favorite. John Stiegman's men are pretty darn hungry, however, and will enjoy an unexpected Tiger-meat meal today. Penn, in an upset, by a touchdown...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Penn May Topple Princeton Today | 10/12/1963 | See Source »

...nongraded and amply supplied with teachers. It has a well-qualified school superintendent, Neil V. Sullivan, who is on leave from heading the schools of East Williston, Long Island. Because Dickie is far ahead of many of the Negro 17-year-olds, his father expects him to get "darn near tutorial education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Integration: Dickie's Decision | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

...alcoholic ward are guaranteed to take the lining off a sober spectator's complacency. Then and always, Lemmon's portrayal is easily the most intelligent, intense and complex performance so far accomplished by an actor who started out as a light comedian but apparently can do darn near anything he pleases in front of a camera and most of the time do it better than any American cinemactor of his generation. In this picture Lemmon starts out as a gay and gloriously funny falling-down drunk; as his disease progresses he regresses with a ferocity few players could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Down the Hatch | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

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