Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with Congress. They want to do him in. But they dare not appear merely as obstructionist, and must give their party a positive congressional record on which to run. They know only too well that Nixon, like Truman, is the kind of gut fighter who would relish giving them hell...
Hughes said that he was speaking from Paradise Island in the Bahamas. Among many other subjects, he discussed a report that he had turned into a troglodytic creature with waist-length beard and eight-inch fingernails. Said Hughes: "Why, hell, how could I write my name if I had fingernails?" Each reporter had prepared test questions to establish Hughes' identity, and Hughes was often vague and uncertain in his answers. Hughes was adamant, however, about the manuscript. "This must go down in history," he said. "I don't remember any script...
...told me in an interview: The Nixon Administration has inflicted a great wound. Time heals wounds, of course, but there will be a scar. We are grateful to the American press, intellectual leaders and all those who raised their voices against injustice. Pakistan turned this country into a hell. We are very sorry that some administrations of friendly countries were giving support to killers of the Bengali nation. For the people of Bangladesh, any aid from Nixon would be disliked. It would be difficult, but we do not bear any lasting enmity...
...quarterback." (Others say it is because only he and God fully understand the complex Landry multiformations.) Not all of the Cowboys are happy with the messenger service. Says one player: "The coach has become so conservative-playing mostly ball control-that some guys on the offense feel throttled back. Hell we have the most explosive offense in the league, if Coach Landry would only loosen his short leash...
Died. Charles E. ("Electric Charlie") Wilson, 85, former president of the General Electric Co. and high-voltage mobilizer of U.S. industry during World War II and the Korean War; in Bronxville, N.Y. A product of Manhattan's seething Hell's Kitchen, Charlie Wilson earned $3 a week as an office boy at the Sprague Electric Co. in 1898, then rose steadily through the corporate ranks after Sprague was absorbed by G.E. In 1939 he took over as president, but three years later joined the War Production Board. Wilson returned to G.E. in 1944, where, aiming at the postwar...