Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting by dipping into his store of anecdotes. "After consulting the leading economists of his day about where the economy was going and getting a constant stream of forecasts of 'On the one hand this and on the other hand that,' Harry Truman allegedly said, 'Hell, what I need is a one-armed economist.' " Still, Reporter-Researchers Hilary Ostlere, Allan Hill and Sarah Button were struck by the almost universal comment of one economist to another, "I agree with you absolutely-but ..." Nevertheless, concluded Associate Editor James Grant, who wrote this week's story...
...black cone of Surtsey rising from the sea off Iceland in 1963, the Indonesian volcano Batur shooting lava bombs skyward in 1971, Italy's Stromboli still flaring like a Roman candle, and the lava lake of Zaire's Rugarama glowing as luridly as the lower pits of hell. As Absurdist Playwright Ionesco suggests in his introduction to Volcano, all one has to do is gaze at these awesome pictures to realize that in many locales the Apocalypse is a daily event...
More than he knew, "Give-'em-hell" Harry Truman was quite faithful to his predecessor's set policy. During the Allied leaders' Potsdam Conference in July 1945, Truman learned that the first A-bomb test at Alamogordo, N. Mex., had been a success, enabling him to tell the Russians, as Churchill put it, "just where they got on and off." Indeed, some revisionist historians have insisted that U.S. officials used the bomb against Japan primarily-if not solely-to impress their military might upon Russia. But Sherwin disputes this interpretation, despite his conviction that both Roosevelt...
...communicates his confusion. There are many tantalizing themes in the movie, but none are developed. The night caller, for example, is not just any homicidal maniac: he has class. He calls himself "Minos" after the character in The Divine Comedy who metes out punishments to sinners entering hell. He makes creepy nocturnal phone calls to his prospective victims, then goes to their apartments posing as a police investigator and strangles them. He teases the police by sending them a notice of each murder, with a picture of one part of his body cut from a full-length photograph of himself...
...individual goals in today's America she must cease to cling to memories of her father and their harrowing experience of hiding in wartime Holland. A young couple begins a new and isolated life in Nevada, believing that "the only marriages that work [are] those where you say the hell with it, and then move out to Nevada or Alaska, or Brazil," only to discover that they are terrified by their separation from the values of society...