Word: heck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dial 'Information'," (which seems logical enough). Step.2. "Lift the handset." (Yes.) Step 3. "Listen for the dial tone before dialing. This steady humming sound tells you that the dial equipment is ready for your call." (Boy! This is one hum we want to hear talk!) Step 4. "Go to heck." (This is surely a misprint, else, first steps are indeed misleading!) Then, there can be no mistake, it says: "One and two party line WOodlawn customers can dial direct to all offices in this directory." Now this is service! From the cemetery to you! At last, communication with the beyond...
...mother says that he will never retire because he loves the Band too much, but DePinto himself, outwardly less of the sentimentalist, says, "Heck, if I'm going to sit there and watch, I might as well be on the field with them...
Speculation doesn't have to be practical. It is enough that it is intellectually interesting and satisfying. And there is always the chance that something may come of it--like the metal image of the mathematical concept of a mobius strip that Batteau built "for the heck of it," and which is currently being seriously studied for its properties. It may shed some light on the effects of chromosome aberrations in genes...
...that in the opportunity to campaign for one party (or the other) the languid student has an extraordinary opportunity to serve his own political principles and, at the same time, to have a ball. Those interested in asserting themselves for the right (or the wrong) or just for the heck of it should contact Gordon Martin for the Democrats (or Don Hodel for the others...
...Communist associations and denounced the campaign against him as "vicious." He asked for and got permission to appear before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee to rebut the rumors. He will get plenty of support. All last week prominent New York Republicans were flocking to his defense. Said Oswald D. Heck, speaker of the state assembly and close political associate of Tom Dewey: "The statements circulated about [Javits] are ridiculous. I consider him to be one of the best public servants [and] the strongest candidate for the U.S. Senate...