Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus, for roughly half a century, young Catholics were initiated into the sacrament of penance and its promise of forgiveness from God. The results, many Catholic educators agree, were often disastrous. Some young penitents became haunted by the fear of mortal sin and going to hell. Others developed false consciences, accusing themselves of sins that were only the harmless exuberances of a child. Still others dreaded the whole experience so fiercely that they gave it up for good as soon as they were able to. Those who continued to receive the sacrament were sometimes spiritually stunted, unable to go beyond...
Ralph Goldston is gone. Ralph Glodston, a crusty and hardnosed coaching veteran, who punctuated practices with pithy similes and drove his defensive backs through hell and back, who once likened a defensive back's stance to "a dog shitting razor blades," and who inspired with the regularity of a Swiss watch bombastic letters from the Association of Black Athletes charging the football staff with racism. Glodston who resented being considered a "black" first and a coach second, who wanted to get into serious football, who tasted the brand and atmosphere of Cambridge and pulled up roots for the greener...
...Ervin, vacationing in North Carolina (see page 16), called the speech "a rehash, a solicitation of the public to make the committee quit working." He said that it reminded him of the old lawyer who advised a young colleague: "When the facts of law are against you, give somebody hell." Ohio Governor John J. Gilligan slyly noted that in Nixon's discussion of the confidentiality that exists between lawyer and client and between husband and wife, the President "stopped short of [mentioning] the relationship between psychiatrist and patient-which his top staff went out of their way to violate...
...pictures, no interviews. I turned down some heavy cats." When he did make public appearances, he painted his face assorted colors and wore a huge wig and sunglasses. "And these crazy long fingernails. You dig? People knew I had makeup on, but they didn't know what the hell was underneath...
...Anchorage sport "Sierra Go Home" bumper stickers. Pro-industry coloring books, buttons and pamphlets appear in grocery stores and churches. "Our only mistake," admits Dave Murdey, 52, vice president of Ketchikan Pulp Company, "was not starting our propaganda war sooner. There's a place for Sierra Club-hell, we used to pour motor oil into the water every time we cleaned a boat's engine. We need rules, but we also need responsibility...