Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like military maneuvers. "Okay, Stretch, run a slant out to the sideline, then cut back to the ditch in the middle. Run your man into the ditch. Maybe he'll break something." Or "Curl in around the rock, but watch out for the bramble bushes--they scratch like hell" (we always used "hell" in the huddle because nobody could hear us there...
...part Willowbrook remains the snake pit it has always been. There is one difference now, though. It is a difference which will probably have no profound effect on Willowbrook but which has a killing effect on me. Now I have a friend living and dying in that god forsaken hell hole...
...here is that the overall political strategy of the Republicans was to have Nixon run not as an individual, but as the institution of the President. The Committee for the Re-Election of the President, and not the Republican Party, ran the campaign, claiming they would "get politics the hell out of the White House and across the street" (Little did they know the irony of this statement--that the politics would not make it all the way across, and would end up in the gutter...
...office boy in New York City. One of the secretaries in the office was a girl putting in time until she got married; the wedding was last June, unless it was called off. She wasn't terribly bright -- someone once told her to go to hell, as I recall, and she came right back with "Why don't you?" evidently convinced it was a crushing, witty, and original remark. And it only dawned on her toward the end of the summer that I probably lived in a dormitory. It was her envy at the discovery that surprised me, though...
...Hell, every year you could say that you are looking for depth in your lineup," McCurdy said yesterday. "But this year we really don't have anyone ready to step into the lower three spots. We had two of our top five runners graduate, and we're left with one outstanding runner, a man we think will do well at second, and the rest is a new team and a very green team...