Word: goddam
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...first five games by mid-October, when it hoped for an upset against hated rival the University of Southern California in South Bend, Ind. On the day of the game, thousands of fans formed a receiving line and screamed as the players strolled through the gauntlet of cheers. "Goddam gifts to God!" shouted one supporter in unholy praise. "Probably be the best damn moment of their lives." The team's captain and quarterback, Jimmy Clausen, 22, of Thousand Oaks, Calif., had been the nation's top high school football player when he turned down all other offers to play...
...counterattack came. The Russians bombed infrastructure targets all over Georgia and cut off the main east-west highway, then marched to within 34 miles (55 km) of Tbilisi before turning back. Georgians felt betrayed. As one told me, "We were looking at the skies constantly, asking, Where are the goddam Americans...
...brought a sign that said, "The tree of liberty has to be watered with the blood of tyrants," and you're carrying a goddam gun at a presidential event. I think those things make people wonder what you're about.' CHRIS MATTHEWS, MSNBC host, castigating New Hampshire man William Kostric for taking a licensed, loaded handgun to President Obama's town-hall meeting on health-care reform...
...Rangel Center for Public Service at the City College of New York has been controversial, with accusations that Rangel improperly used congressional stationery to solicit donations and sought contributions from companies that had business before the Ways and Means Committee. ("Me writing a letter on behalf of a goddam college? Give me a break," he says dismissively.) In June, the House ethics committee launched yet another probe, this time into trips taken by Rangel and other lawmakers to the Caribbean. ("That's nothing," he says...
...transit hierarchy is clogged with wise guys. "What the hell do they expect for their lousy 35 cents?" one executive says of the subway hostages. "To live forever?" Another MTA veteran boldly and unwisely struts down the tracks toward the kidnapped train. "Why don't you go grab a goddam aeroplane like everybody else?" he shouts to one of the gunmen. "'Cause we're afraid of flyin'," the bad guy replies, and - BLAM - kills him. The subway system had its murders too, and not just in movies...