Word: darning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Biden: Uh, I'm sorry, but your time is up. I'd like to recognize my distinguished colleague from Alabama, Sen. Heflin, but he is making a special guest appearance on "Hee-Haw" and couldn't be with us tonight. Still, we're all gosh darn proud of him here on the committee and wish the good ol' Senator well. The thoughtful Senator from Pennsylvania...
...Everybody laughed, and Judy Ingqvist, Pastor Dave's wife, spoke up, "It's called dramatic license. You improve on reality a little bit, in order to make a point. Like the parables in the Bible." There was an uncomfortable silence after that. Sounded like more of Dave's gosh-darn liberal doctrine to them. The Bible as literature is not a concept that has made much headway around here...
...type of question (it's a lot easier to cheat on a true-false test than an essay exam) and it is certainly affected by frustration level. If you can't for the life of you remember one out of 100 multiple choice questions, it seems pretty darn stupid to risk the other 99 by looking over someone's shoulder. If you have gone through all 100 and haven't gotten one so far, you might feel you have less to lose by trying to pick up a couple answers the slimy...
...Chicago Daily News, would shout, "Okay, boys, let's cut 'em up." There followed golden hours of bombast, insult, vituperation and disparagement aimed at Presidents, editors, academics, clergymen, members of Congress and little old ladies in tennis shoes. Osborne, the courtly Southerner, was heard on somber occasions to say "darn." Thus cleansed, we returned to duty -- and, as we now know, banishment. One of Nixon's gumshoes must have reported the proceedings...
...home where the buffalo roam would be a darn sight more profitable than a busted ranch. Or so thinks Robert Scott, who has proposed turning the 15,000- sq.-mi. Big Open area of east-central Montana into a game park the size of Maryland with half of New Jersey thrown...