Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...along with him, when he retired to EI Cass Pacifica, the man who understood him best. So Thompson is holedup in Boulder Creek, listening to tapes of Jimmy Carter speeches and reading about himself in Doonesbury. Thompson was best in writing about thugs and goons, from San Bernadino's Hell's Angels and the burnt-out geeks of Las Vegas, to the inhabitants of the Oval Office. Covering Saigon at the time of NLF victory, when Nixon was gone, Thompson seemed trivial, almost offensive. At the same time the presidential tapes were revealing that H.E. and P. even talked like...
...there I'll see the hell-bent run of Klammer or the powerful grace of Sheila Young, or Dorothy Hamill blissfully fondling the golden dreams hanging around her neck. And perhaps I'll be able to see, through all my provincial prejudices, that those winter games aren...
...assignment changed for many. The CHUL decision, we may be confident, will not increase the popularity of the Quad House affected. And so we may expect that this April will be a hectic one at the Housing Office, as perhaps a few hundred students from all classes will raise hell regarding their assignment to, say, a 75 per cent male North House. Pierre Paquette '78 Currier House
...Secretary is finding that Rumsfeld is a more adroit maneuverer than Kissinger's old opponent James Schlesinger ever was. Says an insider: "Rummy is a dummy as a SALT scholastic. But he's politically savvy as hell, and he's going around town saying the U.S. can live without a SALT agreement this year, and Kissinger's deadline is just that-it's Kissinger's deadline, not the country's or even the Administration...
...does yield some ground in the area of the profane. Under "Obscenity, Vulgarity and Profanity," the manual explains that the Times will continue to present the news, as Times Patriarch Adolph S. Ochs decreed in 1896, "in language that is parliamentary in good society." But a mild profanity like Hell or damn, the manual says, "is really not offensive to a great degree" as long as it is not used as a matter of course...