Word: darnedness
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But Wilson thought that management itself was partly to blame for the union demands. It had not made its case clear to employees and it would have to do better. Said he: "For the last six months, in every plant we have, management has gone in and given [workers] the...
Concluded Critic Lejeune dolefully: "The sort of native industry that struggled up in the war years is no longer observable in Britain. Indications are that British films have had it; and that in so far as contributing a strong indigenous product to international art is concerned, our movies are darned...
At week's end, Barkley discovered that he had added a new word to the language. "Darned if it hasn't gone all over the country now," he said. "Every time I pick up a paper I find I'm 'The Veep.' "
They talked in the cafe for three hours. That evening she pressed his baggy pants, darned his socks and turned the collar on his shirt. A few months later they were married. "I'll never forget that first day in the cafe," she said last week. "I was scared...
"Guess I'm kind of morbid," he asserts. "I'd sorta figured on setting up a little altar in the corner of the room and worshipping the darned thing. Just for a gag you know."