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Word: hell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Powell "would be better off running a farm in Vienna, Ga." To which Powell replied: "It would certainly put me in touch with a better class of people." In Billy's opinion, Chief White House Aide Hamilton Jordan is "a kid. I don't know what the hell Hamilton does." Holds his temper, for one thing. His rejoinder: "Good ole Billy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 15, 1979 | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...erect in posture, adult in demeanor. Life for a child in Puritan New England, after all, was a sobering proposition: one-half of all youngsters died before the age of ten, and those who survived were continually reminded that they had been born in sin and were doomed to hell if they did not submit to the commandments of parent and preacher. To adults, play was a manifestation of a depraved nature, and they tried to coerce their children into becoming models of rectitude. One dictum for raising properly passive Puritan offspring: "Once a day, take something from them." Children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Changing Images of Childhood | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...Could any hell be more horrible than now and real? I pressed her thigh and death smiled...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: A Voice Of the Dead | 1/11/1979 | See Source »

...promotion tour for her recently published autobiography, "By Myself," Bacall, siren of the '40s and originator of The Look, dropped into the Coop for an hour to sign copies of the book. All hell broke loose...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Lauren Bacall Enchants Crowd While Promoting Book at Coop | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...think that they get good training. You get good background; I think that's awfully important, because you don't know what the hell you're going to do till you get out of school. I never thought that I'd go into as much personal injury work as I've gone into. I thought I wanted to do all criminal work. Then when I got out of law school, I saw that criminal work was dangerous...The things lawyers had to do to survive, you were just on the same level as the criminal...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Casus Belli | 1/4/1979 | See Source »

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