Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Incredibly, the police, though they knew there were five hostages inside, by most eyewitness accounts opened fire on the truck as it approached the roadblock. They exchanged gunfire with the men in the truck for one mad minute of hell. When it was over, Judge Haley was dead, his jaw and part of his face blown off by a blast from the shotgun taped to him. James McClain, William Christmas and the young intruder lay dead as well. Magee, Deputy District Attorney Thomas and one of the jurors were wounded...
...purpose was not to "scare hell out of the customers," as you suggest. I pointed out that I believe the U.S. is technologically superior to the Soviet Union today. I also pointed out that the U.S. does have forces of strategic sufficiency today. My concern is that there is a real danger that we will not be in such a position by 1975 or 1980 if present trends continue...
...conserve electricity one afternoon, the subway system sidelined one-third of its trains and ran the rest at a top speed of 18 m.p.h., less than half the normal maximum. Perspiring passengers tolerated the experience, muttering remarks like, "So at this speed, why the hell doesn't Con Ed cut its rates in half?" But slowing the rapid transit system also destroyed its appeal. As a result, private cars flocked onto the streets, their exhausts adding to pollution problems...
...administration's plan to split his college into smaller schools. He was also a target because of his liberalism, aggressiveness and potential candidacy for the U.T. presidency. According to one professor, Erwin told Silber: "John, you are the most intelligent, articulate and persistent man around. You scare the hell out of the incompetents above...
...fever chart of psychic pain. Maria cries constantly. She drives the freeways maniacally. She alternately ignores friends or calls them in the middle of the night. All of what Robert Lowell called "the kingdom of the mad"-its hackneyed speech, its homicidal eye-is here. Maria's private hell is constantly invaded by real-life demons of the show business world, which has perhaps never been so witheringly portrayed...