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Word: hell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon's got a hell of a lot to offer Harvard. He can teach, administer, and call Joe Restic with football plays. But if worse comes to worse, we could still reasonably expect administrative whiz Steven S.J. Hall to hire Nixon for Buildings and Grounds: Adams House is reportedly having trouble keepings its pool clean. At the very least, Nixon could be hired to make the water perfectly clear...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Give the Guy a Job | 12/12/1973 | See Source »

...National Bank, mumbled something to a secretary, and left a package addressed to Robert Ruckman, the bank's president and the chief collector for the fund. In the package were $2,000 in twenty, fifty and one hundred dollar bills and a letter explaining the gift: "What the hell is happening in this country when a six-year-old child needs life-saving surgery and is denied treatment because some hospital demands a down payment on the inherent right he was born with to health and happiness? We are enclosing $2,000, which we hope will give Jody Dietrich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Helping Out | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

...crucial Government witness turned up dead-floating in his boat down a river, the back of his head removed by a shotgun blast. "Nick has always conducted himself like a real gentleman," says McMahon, explaining their friendship. Did Ed know of Nick's association with the Mafia? "Hell, they're everywhere. There isn't any way you can be in show business without knowing some of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Ed McMahon's America | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

...four burglaries, citizens demanded that the lights come on again. "People thought I was a son of a b. for dousing the lights, but what do I care?" he said. "If everyone in the country would make this kind of effort, we could tell the Arabs to go to hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MOOD: Cold Comfort for a Long, Hard Winter | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

...sketches are pretty wispy stuff, ranging from a government clerk sneezing on a general at a most inopportune moment to a dental student ecstatically extracting a tooth to a virago making life pluperfect hell for a gout-prone bank manager. The second half of the show is distinctly brighter and breezier than the first. The entire cast is not only exemplary, but extraordinarily versatile, and Christopher Plummer, as usual, provides superior acting with facile, enviable ease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Humorist Goes AWOL | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

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