Word: goddam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peter J. McGuinness had always liked to talk. He was born and raised in Greenpernt and left it only once, to work as a lumber inspector in the South. He soon came back explaining: "I don't like that Jim Crow they got or their goddam white crow either." As a young dock walloper he was the king of Greenpernt's waterfront. He got into a fight every night, flattened everyone he ever fought, and always leaped up on a lumber pile afterwards to give the spectators "a hot spiel...
Zack: "Look in the mirror, you goddam leech. You work for Stalin. You stoolpigeon...
Like Decent People. Beaten Milt Murray declined to be renominated, and got loud applause for saying: "There has been some pretty vicious politics . . . and I contributed my share. We've fought like a bunch of goddam kids. Let's see if we can't grow up and act like decent people...
...happens to have a few "Catholic radical" acquaintances, and though far from a radical himself, he objects when a pugnacious Brooklynite damns Franklin D. Roosevelt and his "filthy Jew advisers." One day Billy Ryan, the neighborhood Tammany boss, looks Moon straight in the eye and thunders, "You and your goddam Communist friends." A few hours later Father Malone angrily orders Moon out of the neighborhood rectory. Moon, who has never knowingly talked to a Communist in his life, recalls that a priest had once warned him that there were elements in the Church guilty of ignorant hate and "the most...
...letter was in familiar surroundings, but its author was not. Mollie Panter-Downes, London correspondent for the New Yorker since the day Britain went to war, had come to Manhattan to meet her bosses for the first time. The "goddam bunch of neurotics," as terrier-tempered Editor Harold Ross calls his jumpy staff, were charmed...