Word: darnedest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COCA-COLA. In this delightful walk-through exhibit, Coke turns up in the darnedest places: hidden in a Hong Kong fish market, along the Taj Mahal's jasmine-scented promenade, tucked in a Bavarian snowbank, cooling in a Cambodian rain forest, or gracing the captain's table on a cruise ship...
...while she plays with her electric trains. The trains come in kits from Germany. She assembles them herself and has them running all over a bedroom. "I never had any toys as a child," she says, "and now I can afford them. I'm going to have the darnedest train layout you ever saw. I've ordered a waterfall from England and a ski lift, and hoboes to ride in the boxcars, and cows and cities. I'm going to have my own crashes right out of Charles Addams...
...tough John McClellan promised that the Senate investigation would be "full, thorough and complete." With him in charge, it probably will be. A veteran of many messy investigations, including 1957-58's marathon inquiry into the Teamsters Union, McClellan ominously summed up the Estes case as "the darnedest mess I've ever seen." Precocious Deals. The man who made the mess is a bundle of contradictions and paradoxes who makes Dr. Jekyll seem almost wholesome. Billie Sol (pronounced "soul" in West Texas) never smoked or drank. He considered dancing immoral, often delivered sermons as a Church of Christ...