Word: goddam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just specific projects or expenditures, however, that Goldwater wants to scrutinize over the next two years. "It's the whole goddam Pentagon," he said. For instance, he thinks the bureaucratic apparatus serving the Joint Chiefs of Staff is particularly bloated. "Why it takes so goddam many men to sum up the thinking and discussion of four men who meet maybe three times a week, I don't know...
...submit to inside-the-craft judgments, the Times said, "would encourage an atmosphere of regulation. We will not furnish information or explanations to the council." That powerful opposition effectively doomed the council from the start. Richard Salant, then president of CBS News, criticized the Times for being "so goddam hard-nosed. I take the position that everyone has the right to look over my shoulder except the Government." But, Salant added, many of his network colleagues, including Walter Cronkite, did not share his keenness for a council. ABC refused to cooperate; NBC was unenthusiastic. Time Inc. had its doubts about...
...Canadian Downhiller Todd Brooker said he did not like Johnson either, and that with his present style he could never win a demanding race like the Hahnenkamm. But he added, "You've got to give the guy credit. It's one thing to be so goddam sure of yourself and another to be absolutely right. He was definitely the best skier on the course today...
...hard-liners on Allen's staff at the NSC, saw cables reporting on Nitze's discussions with the Soviets in Geneva, he complained, "Once Paul gets hungry for a deal, all the instructions in the world won't keep him from trying to make any goddam deal he thinks...
...Last July, the legal snooping, aided greatly by the testimony of Joseph Agosto, who turned Government informer and described his supervision of the skimming, produced federal convictions of five mobsters for siphoning off proceeds of Las Vegas' Tropicana casino. "You gotta be a thief to steal your own goddam money," Agosto had complained in one taped conversation. He died of a heart attack shortly after the Tropicana trial...