Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Glenn Kimble thinks that man "won't suffer a hell of a lot if the whooping crane does not make...
...person cannot commit suicide when and where he wants in an impulsive moment," says Shneidman, "he might just say the hell with it." At a meeting last week, the board accepted Shneidman's proposal to consider installing a physical barrier against would-be jumpers...
...just how confusing it can be. As a Sydney court stenographer, Bates has to decipher the lingo and convert it into shorthand symbols at the rate of 200 words a minute. "Thank God I'm a professional phoneticist," he says. "Otherwise, I wouldn't know what the hell half the witnesses and lawyers I have to record were talking about most of the time...
...have started a six-week crash course in Australian usage and pronunciation for Asian students at the University of New South Wales. Students are given isolated bits of Strine to cover all sorts of contingencies-envy is usually a case of sag rapes, and summer nights can be hell when the egg ni '-ner (air conditioner) is on the blink. Students often use a handbook on Strine that sets up little dramatic situations larded with lingo. What, for instance, should a wife do with a layabout husband? "Fitwer smeeide leave him. Seems he sawway sonn the grog...
...eleventh novel in his Strangers and Brothers series, C.P. Snow at 64 has finally, after 30 years and 135,000 words, pronounced finis, leaving the world of marathon-dance fiction to Fellow Briton Anthony Powell.*The last installment, Snow promised, would be a book about "death, judgment, heaven and hell." Last Things is considerably less than that. Its major shortcomings and minor but honest pleasures pretty well sum up what has been right and wrong with Strangers and Brothers from the start...