Word: goddam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus inspired, Neuberger began his campaign. As a worried Cordon aide put it last week: "That Dick Neuberger has been hopping about the state like a goddam flea...
...fellow playwrights went absolutely Gorky ("Dawn over Mexico, and the lone voice of a heartbroken whore singing in a cribhouse"), but one production after another lost money. "It's the goddam critics' fault," Jed sneered. When the theater folded. Jed went to hack in a hell called Hollywood: "His heart jumped in his chest. For the first time it occurred to him that now he was going to be rich." He got rid of his first wife ("a peasant") and married his second (who gave his life a "Brahmin note...
...whaling years at home. Sometimes a captain came back with enough oil from one cruise to retire for life. But there is also the story of the skipper who spent two years at sea and returned to tell his owners: "We didn't get a single goddam barrel of oil, but we had a goddam fine sail." For the average crewman the money rewards were trifling. All he could look forward to with certainty was maggoty food, cramped and filthy quarters, brutal whippings if he complained, and, since casualties were high, a good chance that he would...
...What worries me is that a military career for a Negro is about the top he can get." A Negro G.I. said it in a different way: the Negro "begins to see the fellows getting along in the Army and begins to say to himself, it would be so goddam nice if it could be like that all over...
...unionists tighten up was a crowd of a thousand angry A.F.L. men marching through the mist toward Pier 39. They were armed with two-by-fours, baseball bats wrapped in newspaper and lengths of chain. As they approached the pier, the shout went up: "Let's push those goddam Commies off the wharf! Let's get our men off the ship...