Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Attorney General, who might be the most embarrassed of all, merely smiles a wan little smile and refers fondly to her as his "unguided missile." She also has an admirer in President Nixon, who has referred to her as "spunky" and told her to "give 'em hell...
Life on earth is every man's hell some of the time. From man to man, the span of suffering and the sense of damnation varies. For some, the searing pain, the numbing descent into nothingness lasts minutes or hours or days; for others, weeks, months and years. It is Samuel Beckett's special vision to see man's entire life as a torment, a flaying of the heart, a hell without...
...time has come when we must begin saying some of the things that were said in the 1950s, come hell or high water," White told a national meeting of educators in Washington, D.C. Clearly incensed by the grand jury's conclusionsdisputed by both a Justice Department report and the Scranton CommissionWhite called them a "local manifestation of a brewing national disaster." They reveal a "frightening misunderstanding of higher education." Colleges cannot shelter lawbreakers, said White, but neither can they become places "where ideasno matter how offensiveare to be suppressed...
...newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell," said Wilbur F. Storey regarding the aims of the Chicago Times in 1861. Storey was talking in a day when newspapermen would not hesitate a minute to lambast the Establishment. Today's large-circulation papers tend to be part of the Establishment. San Francisco's Examiner and Chronicle, for instance, are so comfortably settled that the Bay City has become one of the worst-newspapered cities in America...
...motto, Brugmann adopted "We print the news and raise hell." The result is subjective journalism, thoroughly checked for accuracy. "I have no patience with 'objective' reporting," says Brugmann. "I aim my derringer at every reporter and tell him, 'By God, I don't want to see any objective pieces.' This is point-of-view journalism. We don't run a story until we feel we can prove it and make it stick...