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Word: goddammed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horseflesh. Said a member of his family: "He always suspects they're ready to bite him." In the same way he is leary of success. When a man begins to think of himself as successful, according to the Gibbsian philosophy, "he gets to thinking he is so goddam bright that it just paralyzes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Technological Revolutionist | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...line to road depots before the thaw. On March 9, they tumbled off the train at dingy Dawson Creek station, staked stiff canvas tents under the northern lights. "Jeez, it was so cold," a Bronx private remarked, "that every time we had hot stew for chow, the goddam stuff froze before we could eat." Behind the troops came trucks, road machinery, supplies, gas, diesel fuel and planks from torn-down CCC camps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Barracks with Bath | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

...Army Air Forces. London newspapers said so. Some U.S. correspondents picked up the story. On both sides of the Atlantic people found the report all too easy to believe: it was in character with so much that had gone before, so like those bloody Americans or the goddam British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: How to be Allies | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...economic idiocy. He was Democratic county chairman in 1940 when Glenn Taylor won the nomination and at once resigned in disgust, announcing that he would support the Republican nominee, who was, said he, an economic illiterate but not quite a complete imbecile. He calls Cowboy Taylor a "goddam pettifogging demagogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Showman and Scholar in Idaho | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...naval officer laughed. "Oh, they've got me on shore duty," he said. "Nursing these goddam land mines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Aloha | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

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