Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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archy and mehitabel, as you may recall, was the sad story of a cockroach who lived in a newspaper office and crawled out at night to type his life story and the multifarious songs of mehitabel the cat ("wott'hell archy wott'hell there's life in the old girl yet" being in my recollection her favorite) on the newspaper's typewriter but being a cockroach was too weak to press down the shift key. no capitals, that meant. theater two is putting on a "back-alley opera for children which starred carol channing off-broadway," set in shinbone alley...
There is a time to be timid. There is a time to be conciliatory. There is a time to fly and there is a time to fight. And I'm going to fight like hell...
...Iraqi-born elevator technician from Jaffa who had been serving as a mortarman, "but in the meantime I want to live a little." Added a Tel Aviv housepainter: "We can manage out here at the front all right, but we have problems at home. My business has gone to hell, I've got debts up to my neck, and the pay they give you for reserve service ($190 a month) doesn't cover everything when you've got three kids and a pregnant wife." Said a bank clerk from Haifa: "You can't depend...
...only as a teacher. No more of this talking about him as the Lord. We don't want to offend "our Jewish students." That really ticked old Charlie off. He even stopped trying to convert me after that--I guess he figured all I had coming to me was hell fire and damnation...
...really. But somehow I think there's a little desire retribution in it. I had to say he had it coming to him--nobody tells me I'm going to Hell and gets away with...