Word: goddammit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chuteside watchers could hear him shout as he hit Battledore: "Faster, goddammit. Let's go faster." At Shuttlecock he misjudged by the merest fraction of an inch. His spiked shoes grabbed empty air as he catapulted over the rim and soared ten feet into the snow. Seconds later he was up, unhurt-but disqualified from a Cresta race for the first time in his career...
Thurber stood it for six months and, in spite of his misery as an executive, managed to write seven pieces that were accepted, but for which he did not get paid. At last Ross said, "I guess you're a writer. All right then, goddammit, write." So Thurber continued to write pieces and, in addition, he and White and one legman for 7½ straight years got out "The Talk of the Town," which, nowadays, requires virtually a platoon. Between them, White and Thurber pretty much set the tone of the magazine that Ross had created...
...confessed: "I didn't want to do it. Johnny, he ordered me to kill Gispert ... Even when I met .Gispert on the staircase, I didn't want to do it. I even talked to him and asked him for a job. He got sore and said 'Goddammit' to me. That heated my ears, so I said 'Goddammit to you, also,' and then I shot him. Afterwards I went to the Quiapo church to pray and repent...
After four hours, a chief spoke up. "Well, Barnes, goddammit," he said, "it looks like you've got just what us birds up here need." For $10,000 Barnes agreed to spray the clouds, with silver-iodide particles for three months...