Word: damn
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...happens this observer, thanks to the utmost kindness of a Harvard brethren, has a copy of that magazine and, here's where the frustration comes in, we can't see what's so damn sexually illicit about...
...Toronto, an oil truck driver said: "Let's drop the damn bomb. Why do we always have to wait until someone swats us in the puss?" In Vancouver, the News-Herald took a straw poll, reported two-to-one sentiment against dropping the bomb now. In Quebec, newspapers condemned the bomb as immoral, but the province's outright pacifism of World War II seemed to be gone. If there was a pattern at all, the Canadian tendency was to seek a scapegoat; more often than not it turned out to be U.S. leadership. Many newspapers across the nation...
...Edmonton last week, a reporter asked a World War II officer, now a prosperous father of three children, what he planned to do if the Korean crisis should develop into World War III. Said he: "I guess I'd be a damn fool again and join up." Across the Dominion this was a typical attitude. But like most Americans, most Canadians galloped off in all directions when they talked about ways to resolve the crisis...
...these are superficial impressions, first impressions . . . Each one of his pictures is part of himself. But what kind of man is he? What is his inner world worth? Is it worth knowing, or is it totally undistinguished? Damn it, if I must judge a painting by the artist it is no longer the painting that I am interested...
...continued to do so ever since, making the Black Watch "in truth a family, with ... ancestors and descendants." For 200 years the infantrymen of the Watch marched to war in kilts; with the coming of World War II they were ordered-to prevent identification-into common khaki uniforms. "But damn it!" roared an enraged Jock on hearing this shocking news, "We want to be identified...