Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hell," he said, "that's still better than the price you'd have to pay at the Jiffy...
Elizabeth, N.J. The Hotel Winfield Scott stares soberly with its tired, blackened bricks. A woman sighs as she sponges the counter of the coffee shop, wondering why the hell she has to work on a Sunday. There is only one customer in the small room, a slight, balding man with a white shirt and narrow check tie. He sits at the counter with a half-empty cup of coffee in front of him. "You know, I think things will be much better in the spring," he is telling the waitress. "I'm almost sure that I'll be able...
...trip anyone, and even if you trip on a tennis court you are not likely to do any worse than break a leg. But they are not much to play on: Balls take funny hops, get blown funny places, don't bounce at all, etc. The wind plays hell with service tosses. And somehow the game isn't all it could...
Like the pool hall and the tattoo parlor, the motorcycle usually gets a bad press. T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia) terminated his romance with himself aboard a British army bike, which he had named George VII. During the '50s and '60s, Hell's Angels on their Harley-Davidsons turned in convincing performances as Visigoths at the gates of suburbia. Easy Rider could not keep off the grass, and Evel Knievel, that star spangled Icarus of the carnival circuit, gives young minibike owners potentially lethal delusions of grandeur. But now, during the lull in the great gas panic...
...institution for orphans by his father) to be more popular than the President of the United States. At the height of his success and his salary, reporters pointed out to the Bambino that at $80,000 a year, he was making more than President Hoover ($75,000). "What the hell," Ruth said, "I had a better year than he did last year...