Word: darnedest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...businessmen recruited by Dwight Eisenhower for his first Administration, the biggest was Charles Erwin Wilson, president of General Motors Corp. When blunt, chain-smoking "Engine Charlie" was named Secretary of Defense, he promised to give the job "the darnedest whirl it ever had." This week, as he heads into retirement, Charlie Wilson, 67, can look back on quite a whirl...
...arrived at Chicago's airport, reporters surrounded him: "Can I tell another story?" asked Wilson with a grin. Reporters fairly drooled like bloodhounds in anticipation. Wilson's story was about a migrating bird who arrived late at a Southern rendezvous "because it got mixed up in the darnedest badminton game...