Word: darndest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Comrade Mao calls for a hard sell, his patient peons try their darndest to produce paeans, and so in addition to Mao-think and Mao-speak, the Orient is now being flooded with Mao-carve. On display in Hong Kong are 1,000 statuettes, vases, panels and scrolls dedicated to the greater glory of the Chinese People's Republic. The titles are unlikely to win their authors any new accounts on Madison Avenue (typical stone-hewn example: Take Firm Hold of the Revolution, Promote Production). But if visitors can manage to avoid reading the copy, they will certainly...
...KIDS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS...
Linebackers Matt Donelan and Don Chiofaro did their darndest to fill the gaps, and overworked cornerback Bill Cobb moved in tighter after the Lafayette touchdown...
...fashion, skirts are as high as an elephant's knee, cleavage has plunged so far down the middle that there is no place to go except around the side, cutouts appear in the darndest places, exposing undiscovered areas from whose bourn no traveling eye willingly returns. When the dress is not cut out, it is transparent. Slacks can and do go anywhere. Even men are abandoning their traditional drabness; tuxedo jackets now come in cerise, vests may be flowered. The New York Herald Tribune's Eugenia Sheppard points out that "vulgar" is no longer a nasty word...
...lies ever told in this country." He urged that the "stupidity" of the party's 1964 schism not be repeated, then proceeded to lay the groundwork for another schism by saying: "I say to my liberal friends, 'If you want to take over the party, try your darndest.' I say to my conservative friends, 'If you want to retain control of the party, work...