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Word: hell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Belfast's Orange Lodge. William Cardinal Conway, Ireland's Roman Catholic primate, described the Whitecross killings as "spitting in the face of Christ." Added a deeply pessimistic editorial in Dublin's Irish Times: "The headless horseman is driving Northern Ireland full tilt down the road to hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: Down the Road to Hell | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...rumble rather than a high-pitched whine, as "devastating." A British cleric from a community near Heathrow who appeared at last week's hearing put it more poetically. "Concorde's noise is unbearable, above the threshold of pain," testified the Rev. Hugh Montifiore. "It is not hell, because hell goes on forever. It is more like a secular form of purgatory, or a gall-bladder attack that comes and goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The SST: Hour of Decision | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...pissed off. I've been doing a lot of thinking lately, and I want to shoot my mouth off, sort of. I mean, I wouldn't say some of this stuff for the hell of it, you know, say it to the Globe. But with The Crimson I figure I can talk...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: In Another League Now | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...games," says Brayton. "It's like in football, where they keep computer cards on every player--your height, weight, how fast you run the hundred. They emphasize physical characteristics. One time a scout told me that the best way to impress a scout is to throw like hell for five innings, and don't worry about how long you can last, or about where the ball goes...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: In Another League Now | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...bottom of the totem pole" on the best pitching staff on the league. He led the team in ERA last year, gave up one home run in 95 innings, surrendered two earned runs in his last 43 innings. "I know I'm a better strike-out pitcher than a hell of a lot of guys who can throw harder than me. There's no correlation between how hard you throw and how well you pitch...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: In Another League Now | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

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