Word: goddammitiveness
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...Goddammit," roared Chicago's Democratic Mayor Richard Daley, "they're kicking the hell out of us!" The Windy City's plain-spoken boss was referring not to Republicans, but to underprivileged citizens who might ordinarily be among his most loyal supporters were it not for a delayed time bomb built into the $2.3 billion war on poverty that has repeatedly brought the Democratic program into conflict with big-city Democratic machines...
...with Lyndon added up, in his own words, to "a stressful three months." Early in the transition period, Bundy, as he had always felt free to do with Kennedy, poked his head into the oval office while Lyndon was conferring with Henry Cabot Lodge. He got a blistering rebuke. "Goddammit, Bundy," snapped the President, "I've told you that when I want you I'll call...
...tongue-a kind of pidgin Spanish-they shout anti-American slogans. They hurl fistfuls of sand in the Marines' faces, threaten them, push them and form human barricades. They are then joined in their hostility by the natives who originally had welcomed the Marines. "Form wedges! Form wedges, goddammit!" cries a harassed Marine sergeant. Finally, the Marines disperse the mob and start pushing inland...
...Nixon walked from the room, he said to Klein: "I know you don't agree. I gave it to them right in the behind. It had to be said, goddammit. It had to be said." That in itself left little more that had to be said about Richard Nixon...
...when the people want to do something I can't find anything in the Constitution expressly forbidding them to do, I say, whether I like it or not, 'Goddammit, let 'em do it.' ' In his own fashion, Frankfurter expressed that doctrine most eloquently in his dissenting opinion in 1943's West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, a milestone case in which the majority ruled that it is unconstitutional for a state to require schoolchildren to salute the nation's flag. Frankfurter argued that since the state law aimed toward "a legitimate...