Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Memories of '38 live on in the horror stories of those who lived through those few hours of hell--and Everett Allen has made an effort to ensure that those stories don't die with their aging heroes. A Wind to Shake the World is Allen's homage to the Big Wind, a meticulously documented diary of the storm's progress as it hacked its swath of destruction across a defenseless New York-New England coastline. It is the story of how swift death burst onto a country that didn't yet know enough about hurricanes even to bother naming...
...seems a bit abstruse to you, well, you are not in the minority: the question asked by most people outside the course was, "What in hell does sport have to do with political ideology...
...contested the day before you had an English final, and think of how you had to memorize Civil Disobedience in the men's room at the Garden (that rustle was Thoreau doing chin-ups in his grave). We're talking about a fond memory. We're talking about one hell of a legume. We're talking about BEANS...
...since inured to cold, broke out booster buttons proclaiming: MINUS 40 BELOW KEEPS THE RIFFRAFF OUT. When West Virginia's Governor Jay Rockefeller insisted on being inaugurated outdoors in Charleston's 0° weather, local wags quipped, "We always figured it would be a cold day in hell when a New Yorker would become Governor here." The situation was hardly funny, however, to the 25 inauguration watchers who had to be treated for frostbite...
...crowned pine and pecan groves, they partied with a vengeance-almost as if they were reversing General William Tecumseh Sherman's earlier trek across the South. Said Sam Simpson, a grocer from Barnesville, Ga., bedecked with a peanut lei and two peanut bracelets: "My granddaddy told me that hell would freeze over before we'd have a Southerner as President. Well, I just heard that Washington is frozen." Joseph Wiley Reid, who described himself as a "cousin of Jimmy way back," carried a sign reading, FREE AT LAST! FREE AT LAST! GOD ALMIGHTY, THE WHITE PEOPLE...