Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delegates of the American Communist Party managed to get together at Chicago's swank Ambassador Hotel for their first convention in three years. "Some people have said that we should love this country or leave it," intoned California Delegate Angela Davis, "[but] we are going to fight like hell to get this country back." Fighter Davis was bothered, though, by the fact that the party had chosen such an unproletarian meeting place. "I don't like being here," she said as she sat eating a cantaloupe in the lobby. "We got this fruit at a grocery down...
...spectators were a bit startled to hear that "Better and Better had cleared the Normandy Bank (jump no. 16) and was travelling like a bat out of hell." But generally propriety ruled...
...faithful at Chicago's McCormick Place, Elijah's son and successor, Wallace D. Muhammad, made it official: the race-hatred theme is being shelved. Whites will even be permitted to join the sect, though no rush of recruits is expected. Said Wallace: "We have caught hell from the white man for 400 years, but we have grown to where if the white man respects us, we will respect...
Economic Czar. Says Fukuda: "The economy has suffered deep wounds that will take at least three years to cure." Even after that, in his mind, going back to the old era of hell-for-leather growth would only start "an endless cycle of inflation and deflation." His long-run goal is for the Japanese economy to expand at about a 5% annual rate-only half the average post-World War II pace...
...oversight of the presidency more than you need oversight of the CIA." Ray Cline, a former CIA official and director of intelligence for the State Department who knew both Johnson and Nixon, noted: "They were very strong-minded men. A director of Central Intelligence who said, 'Go to hell' to one of them would not have been director of Central Intelligence next day." As one solution to the problem, Church favors fines or prison sentences for CIA directors if they violate the law, reasoning that penalties would give them a much stronger case for resisting a President...