Word: damning
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Haig advise Nixon to lie? According to a transcript of a White House tape recording, Nixon told Haig, "We do know we have one problem: it's that damn conversation of March 21." That was when Presidential Counsel John Dean warned Nixon about "a cancer growing around the presidency." Nixon suggested that Dean's account of the conversation could be refuted by Haldeman: "Bob can handle it ... Bob will say, 'I was there; the President said ...' " Haig agreed: "That's exactly right." And, suggested Haig, "You just can't recall." But if Nixon...
...this country supposed to be rich? I mean if it is, then why do I live here, sitting on these steps, waiting for the damn government to give me my lunch...
Modern letters are hasty and utilitarian, usually meant for one pair of eyes only. But by that token the best of them, like Woolf's, are also vibrant with immediacy, intimacy and often indiscretion ("Why," she asks, "is it so pleasant to damn one's friends?"). With her aristocratic sense of decorum she may have felt that their very privacy was what made them unpublishable. If so, she failed to reckon on this age's voracious, ransacking appetite for all that is private in a writer's life. As significant as her novels...
...living any more, which is just as well, since roping is no living at all, unless you can eat the silver belt buckles they give away for prizes. Joe Beeler is pushing the outer limits of legal bliss, because he doesn't have to wear those damn black business shoes...
...insult to your readers to think that they give a damn what Richard M. Nixon feels should be done in this country. To dignify a man who disgraced the presidency and used every means possible while in office for his own gain is objectionable to most of your readers...