Word: goddam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavy meal. Among the loudest belchers were famed Critics H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan. At a Manhattan party one night, "Red" Lewis drunkenly embraced Mencken and Nathan and yelled: "So you guys are critics, are you? Well, let me tell you something. I'm the best goddam writer in this here goddam country . . ." Next day, after reading the proofs of Main Street, Mencken wrote to Nathan: "Grab hold of the bar-rail, steady yourself, and prepare for a terrible shock . . . That lump . . . by God, he has done the job . . . There is no justice in the world...
...press "advisory" division, Colonel Burkart tore up the first two pages. Then Beech took another copy to Colonel Echols who, after suggesting a few qualifying changes, approved it. But when the story got a front-page play in many U.S. papers, Colonel Echols flatly branded the story "a goddam lie," although he did not explain why he had okayed it. Henceforth, said Echols, no correspondent might use the phrase "authoritative source" unless he could prove that his statement came from MacArthur or his acting chief of staff, Major General Doyle 0. Hickey...
...mutters, "Where in hell are the goddam gooks?" meaning the South Korean policemen who should be here to handle the refugees. ("Gook" is the universal G.L word for any & all Koreans.) The thin file of soldiers and the still, dumb hundreds of refugees stand in the road facing each other. Then the moment is broken, the danger passes. A sergeant walks up to the old man with the stick, puts a hand on his shoulder and wheels him around, not roughly. The women break into a quick protesting chatter, and some of them move, as though blindly, down the road...