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Word: damn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every year it comes out with the tinsel and the ornaments. And everyone in the family sings along as Mel Torme croons, "Chest-NUHHHHHTs roasting on an open (skip) nose. Yuletide carols being hung by (skip) Eskimos...." And, frankly, we all go out of our minds listening to the damn thing over and over...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Top of the Charts: Wayne, Alvin and the Beach Boys | 12/9/1981 | See Source »

...three fellows she was interested in," George Webster said, adding that his daughter was "too damn busy" to become seriously involved with any one of them...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, | Title: Search for Graduate Student Continues | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

...found that playing global diplomat was a fine way for a politician to turn almost magically into a statesman. He got a Viet Nam ceasefire, made friends with mainland China, and signed an arms limitation agreement with the Soviets, all within a year. In a life of fighting one damn thing after another, he never had such a good time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: The Joys of Waging Peace | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

...tangled with CRLA over funding cuts when he was a deputy director of Reagan's department of social welfare and more recently in his position as head of the conservative Pacific Legal Foundation. Charges outgoing LSC President Dan J. Bradley: "Zumbrun has never demonstrated that he gives a damn about low-income Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: One More Narrow Escape | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

...days, the paper appeals to a demographic bracket. Its readership has largely crossed the Charles, moved into townhouses on Beacon Hill or Bay Village or elsewhere in the Back Bay. They have good grooming habits, and politics is not such a big thing because, after all, this is a damn nice townhouse. There are still many points of common agreement--the New Right is outrageous (this week's paper includes two accounts of an anti-abortion conclave); capitalism has its excesses (a very good story about the seamy business at an aerosol factory that ended with three workers dead...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Phoenix: Ashes to Ashes | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

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