Word: goddammitiveness
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...systems. His father was the son of an English evangelist, but most of Del Webb's early exposure to religion came from his father's three sisters. "Those old ladies were so religious they squeaked," he says. "I had to go to Sunday school and church, and-goddammit-I wanted to play ball. They thought baseball was trafficking with the devil, so when I finally went off to play, I had to do it now and then under an assumed name...
...Goddammit, Write. Columbus, Ohio, was where the bed fell on father, and the ghost got in, where the dog that bit people did his dirty work. It was very nearly where Thurber stayed. He skipped graduation at Ohio State University to serve as a code clerk in Paris during World War I, but returned to cover city hall for the Columbus Dispatch. It was 1925 before Thurber's first wife, Althea, a beautiful girl who had twice been elected Campus Rosebud at State, persuaded him to go to Paris and write a novel, like everyone else...
...after this, things moved fast. Harold Ross, the inspired Neanderthal who edited by the touch system, promptly appointed Thurber the office Jesus (unofficial title: managing editor). Things fell apart, the center did not hold, and eventually Ross desanctified Thurber: "I guess you're a writer. All right then, Goddammit, write...
...have to score," Portfolio shrieked over his public address system during the game, "let's do it according to the rules, goddammit...
...wounded in the rump by a mortar fragment while making a tour of a forward area against the angry advice of a sergeant, who warned of the alert enemy. When Taylor was hit, the sergeant stormed up to his rescue with an attitude that was anything but solicitous: "Goddammit. General, now do you believe me?" Taylor spent ten days in the hospital, but made his staff keep his name off the wounded list for fear he would lose his command...