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Word: hell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Humphry that I would have not cast a vote. Not that ideology would have had anything to do with it. (Though, to be sure, ideologies had very little to do with the election in question.) No, if I'd been forced to the choice. I'd sure as hell have made sure that the weight of my vote would have gone to the man who begged to be treated with laughter and scorn...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Hey kids, what time is it? It's Richard Nixon time! | 10/29/1971 | See Source »

...some time in some joint, George Jackson read or heard or did or was done to something that was for him like a slow-fused madeleine. Some part of the puzzle lowered itself into place and initiated a descent into hell...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: Out of the Game and Into the Vanguard | 10/26/1971 | See Source »

...before, George Jackson did begin to change. At some time in some joint, George Jackson read or heard or did or was done to something that was for him like a slow-fused madeleine. Some part of the puzzle lowered itself into place and initiated a descent into hell so intense as to jimmy the gates of heaven...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: Out of the Game and Into the Vanguard | 10/26/1971 | See Source »

...national crisis and suits up in his "Prissier College" football uniform to bolster his confidence. At times, the mimicry of Nixon's manner and cadences is brilliant. Alternating between the Swiftian and the sophomoric, Roth has Dixon assassinated by drowning in an oversized Baggie and ending up in Hell, running for the office of Devil against Satan himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: The Nixon Genre | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

...Halaby has also pledged to improve marketing and service. "In the past we never sold," he admits. "We just waited for people to come in and buy tickets. We stressed safety and forgot service. Well, we're going to improve that. For example, we're trying like hell to get our stewardesses to be more like geisha girls and stop acting like they're doing you a favor to serve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pan American: Carrier in Crisis | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

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