Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oldtime Arizonan, when asked by a visitor what the Arizonans did when the temperatures reach 115 , answered, "Hell, we just go out on the porch, take off our skin and sit around in our bones...
Because of his two escape attempts, prison authorities refused to let Taylor go to the university to receive his diploma, so S.I.U. sent two officials to the prison cafeteria to present it to him. "This diploma means a hell of a lot to me," Taylor said. "This diploma makes me feel I can do anything." Then tears started to run down his cheeks. Taylor recalled that he hadn't cried since he was 13. "But this year I cried when my father died. And now this. This must be my year for crying...
...State upheaval) Kemeny good-naturedly tossed out lemons at a subsequent mass meeting of students, many of whom were wearing polo shirts painted with bright yellow lemons. Kemeny can also be blunt. A delegation of professors once protested against his bringing his wife Jean to faculty meetings. "Go to hell," he told them. Soon afterward the meetings were thrown open to all the wives, students and university employees...
...could come from that sunken chest - but it does. To say that Treigle steals the show from Sills is merely to concede that opera, like the novel and the stage, often lives by virtue of its bad guys. Or, as the dramatist J.M. Barrie put it, "Heaven for climate, hell for company...
...Mary Freed, a 65-year-old Minneapolis woman who suffers from diabetes and heart disease, wrote an angry letter to her Congressman, Democrat Donald M. Fraser. "Why in hell," she asked, "when a person gets to 65 and is no good, don't they take a person out and shoot him instead of torturing him to death?" Mrs. Freed was understandably upset. Like 28 million other Americans, she was getting a 20% increase in her Social Security check.* But to Mrs. Freed and many other elderly and/or disabled pensioners, that was bad news indeed. The raise would lift their...