Word: goddammitiveness
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Furious as he was with Japanese duplicity, Halsey was quite prepared to adopt Pearl Harbor tactics himself. Even before he knew of the Japanese attack, he had given orders to "sink any shipping sighted, shoot down any plane encountered." Protested his operations officer: "Goddammit, Admiral, you can't start a private war of your own! Who's going to take the responsibility?" Said Halsey: "I'll take it! If anything gets in my way, we'll shoot first and argue afterwards...
...Goddammit," says Odets, "we're living in an age of learn-it-quick. Everyone wants to learn all the tricks of everything he does, all the angles. Every professional writer feels the pressure this vicious, evil society imposes. But in watercolor painting I don't feel that. I can relax. I am an amateur, and I can damn well produce something on which $100,000 doesn't hinge. I paint for two reasons: to cultivate my innocence and to cultivate my ignorance...
...smother soaring prices and bring them tumbling down. But the goods had to be made first. That was Canada's No.1 job on the home front. Cried Gordon longingly last week: "Give me full production from the U.S. and Canada for the next ten or twelve months, and goddammit I'm not a bit afraid...
Dirty Tricks Department. At 62, Halsey is still rugged, and in better health than he was three years ago. He rises at 0600, reads the overnight accumulation of dispatches while downing scalding coffee, and greets his staff at breakfast at a more comfortable hour with a grinning "Sit down, goddammit...
...trenches that will win the war," General Stilwell observed during one argument with his individualistic lieutenant, unmindful of his own lack of ground command. "Goddammit, Stilwell," shouted the usually respectful Chennault, "there aren't any men in the trenches...