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Word: damn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suspended Purpose. In New York City, while a man perched high on a girder of the Manhattan Bridge, Patrolman Joseph Piotrowski climbed toward him, pleaded successfully with him to come down, later asked, "Why did you do it?", to which the man replied: "Because it's my job, damn it; I'm an inspector in the Department of Public Works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 5, 1958 | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...Damn right! Pete, are you bringing Gail to the house now? We have to go down and celebrate...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Social Schism: Brown Spring Weekend | 5/2/1958 | See Source »

...sure. I don't like all the damn politicking that goes on around here, and I think it makes the fraternities look down on us even more. You're right, though--yeh, thanks, I will have some more--we are taking over the campus--Cam Club, IDC, the Herald...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Social Schism: Brown Spring Weekend | 5/2/1958 | See Source »

...These damn pledge periods go on so long it's impossible to get much studying done, dammit. And now Hell Week is coming up, and all studying will be impossible. Besides--all the fraternity parties around here are all the same--the rooms are the same, everything is the same. . . . But this place--with one bathroom for a whole damn corridor--is worse. I'm sick...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Social Schism: Brown Spring Weekend | 5/2/1958 | See Source »

Smith: That's good to hear. They've always been good under the hood. Right now it's those damn fins and all that chrome that's bothering people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TALK ABOUT THE RECESSION | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

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