Word: damn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distinguished Balanchine has no need to damn the modern dance, as he well knows that the "American style," which Europeans immediately discerned, is the direct result of the modern dance movement and its application here. It's a little sad to see the accomplished, suave Balanchine caught off balance...
...strays destroyed. Not unduly upset by the fact that 313 Chicagoans were bitten in four days last week, Antivivisectionist Castle (long egged on by the Hearst press), wanted pet owners to know that anti-rabies shots "would paralyze the hind legs of dogs." Though claiming to be no "damn fool," Irene, who in more than 25 years of running animal shelters has prided herself on an average of three bites a week, blithely offered to let any old mad dog bite her and to "put up $5,000 that I don't get rabies...
...spent a weekend in Boston and was nearly burned to death in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire. He spent three years recovering in Army hospitals, underwent 45 operations, still wears a glove over a badly scarred hand. Engel typically found a silver lining: "You know, I must have been damn lucky. I had orders to ship out on the U.S.S. Dorchester, which got sunk with the loss of most of the men on board. Somebody upstairs is looking...
...Damn Fools. Montagu, then a naval intelligence officer, had what seemed to him a brilliant idea. Why not drop a body dressed as a British officer off the coast of Spain where it would wash ashore? Let the officer carry papers indicating that an attack on Sicily would not be the real thing, that the real blows would fall on Sardinia and Greece. How would the Germans hear about it? Well, trust the Spaniards to tip them...
...easy to get approval (Lord Ismay admits that he was dubious), but Winston Churchill was for it. When someone objected that the stunt might misfire and only call attention to the impending invasion of Sicily, Churchill replied, "I don't see that that matters. Anybody but a damn fool would know it is Sicily...