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Word: hell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leon Goetz lined to center, temporarily closing them, but then all hell broke loose. Mike Lynch doubled for one run, singles by Corby Saunders and Jim Peccerillo produced another, and a Peter Bannish walk produced a bases loaded situation and a shower for Ravinis...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Eagles Conquer Batmen To Avenge Earlier Loss | 4/28/1976 | See Source »

...virtues of Ronald Reagan is that every few days he says to hell with campaigning and goes back to his ranch to ride his horses and reminisce about his old movies. (His problems have to do with what he does when he is on the political job.) Hubert Humphrey, by many measures, is at his best when he is in Waverly, Minn., reading and musing about the country's past or trolling for bass in the evening calm. If he could bring himself to announce to the world he loved Waverly so much that he was going to stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Oh for Another Stargazing Gardener | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

...manner in which Silber pursued them has angered many of the deans, professors and students on the Charles River campus. He was told by the board of regents' chairman when ousted from Texas: "You are the most intelligent, articulate and persistent man around. You scare the hell out of the incompetents above you." Now Silber's arrogant, autocratic leadership-one Boston professor has called him an "intellectual bully"-has worried those beneath him. Incompetents and stars alike, they are trying to get the university's trustees to dismiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Biting the Silber Bullet | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

...Atlanta Braves Pitcher Adrian Devine balked with two men on. As the runners casually advanced, R.E. ("Ted") Turner III, 37, jumped to his feet. "Where are those guys going?" he demanded. "The pitcher balked," someone explained. Turner sat down. Then, after a moment of silence, he asked: "What the hell is a balk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: TWO FOR THE SHOW | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

...restless, Howard soon headed for Hollywood, where he used the earnings from Toolco, as the company became known, to teach himself the art of film making. He was such a fast learner that within two years he won an Oscar for a silent comedy and went on to produce Hell's Angels, an epic of World War I aerial combat. For the leading lady, he discovered Jean Harlow, whose wondrously sculpted shape, platinum hair, plus a certain charming vulgarity, gave her a unique place in the American libido...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: THE HUGHES LEGACY SCRAMBLE FOR THE BILLIONS | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

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