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Despite a sky so dark the players needed headlights, the umpires forced Harvard to bat in the top of the 10th. "They shouldn't have started the goddamn inning." Crimson Coach Alex Nahigian said. "We had to bat in the dark," he added, pointing out that Maine would have daylight for its half of the 10th...
...that visit the unemployed in W.D. Wetherell's If a Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood: "The rags stuffed against drafts. The doctor's bills. The gas. The bare tires. The lottery tickets. The part-time jobs. The patches. The cutting back. The cold. The stove. The wood. The goddamn wood." John Updike's The City follows Computer Salesman Bob Carson's readjustment after an appendectomy: he was "trying to take again into himself the miracle of the world, programming himself." The aged farmer of William F. Van Wert's poetic Putting & Gardening discovers peace without change...
...favors, and school prayer, which he opposes, Weicker has adhered to traditionally Democratic positions. And when Weicker stands alone among his party peers, he by no means constitutes a silent majority. "The problem with Lowell," says one Republican official in New Haven, "is that he makes too much goddamn noise...
...taking off next door? Not jangling enough. The only suitable comparison is with the one thing some of us has ever experienced. The day Ronnie drops the bomb and civil defense alarms go off across the country. Lowellians are going to roll over in the sack, mutter, "just another goddamn alarm," pull their pillows over their ears and hold their bedmates extra close. Then again, that's probably the best...
...When Miss Edna, the real-life madam of the Chicken Ranch, proves too proper for the columnists, the author steps in with scattershot malice. He tells Women's Wear Daily that Actress Alexis Smith, star of the national touring company, "can't carry a tune in a goddamn sack." The antics end at a sad and quiet Maryland retreat, "where they teach you not to drink whisky...