Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inclined to rely a bit too much on airpower. "This attitude prevails in every corner of the battlefield," reports TIME'S Stanley Cloud. " 'Don't worry,' commanders and G.I.s alike keep saying, 'if things get too bad, we'll just bomb the hell out of them.' " But over the years it has not always worked, and it still may not. The inability of the South Vietnamese army to make headway against the Communist invaders on the ground seems to illustrate another saying heard often in Saigon: "Airpower can keep you from losing ground...
Nevertheless the Crimson performed admirably--if not courageously--ass during the rainy afternoon. The final score of 100-53 did little justice to Harvard. "It was a hell of an effort considering the guys we didn't have." McCurdy said...
...With centralized management, and student-faculty exchanges. Reorganzze the University along business-like principles and it will thrive. As it now stands, the students and faculty pay the price of maintaining Harvard in the 19th century, while they have to live in the 20th. Surely you can do a hell of a lot more for everyone concerned when you've got Harvard's Billion Dollar Endowment and Endless Prestige to work with. Steve Nelson LL. B. '65 M.P.A...
...blue-collar actor, slightly embarrassed about art but avid about craft. For his Oscar-winning role as the obsessive, foul-mouthed Popeye Doyle, he served an apprenticeship in Harlem with Eddie Egan, the real-life detective on whose exploits The French Connection was based. "It was scary as hell," Hackman says. "We'd burst into a crowded bar, and Egan would put on a drill instructor's voice, flat and unemotional, and yet authoritative. If anyone talked back, his voice would go a pitch higher. He always won." In the film, Hackman borrowed such Egan tricks as shoving...
...ENTHUSIASTIC strike chants that brought down the curtain on Thursday night's anti-war meeting in Sanders Theater would seem to suggest that once again Harvard's students, however fired by idealism and resolve, are out to play revolution for the hell of it. While we are asked "to suspend all our normal activities," the assembly refused to explain how one can "strike" despite rather than against the University. A proposal stipulating that the strike energy not be dissipated in picketing classes and coercing those who chose to attend them was prevented from even being brought to a vote...