Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...negative consequences, but the dangers of not being careful are much greater. I'm willing to take the negative consequences. I have seen too many serious things happen over the years when people spoke without being careful and then that changed the situation or it took a hell of a long time to get things back on the track again. [Saying too much] is much more dangerous, no question about it. Often I think I could have said things better. Being terribly cautious about how I phrase things sometimes [means] it has less impact than if I were more...
...when that doesn't happen, criticism is bound to follow. People have got to recognize that these are terribly difficult, long-term problems. You've got to give necessary time to work through them and not stick down a thermometer each week and say: What in hell have you done this week? This is true on Panama. I think we are going to get a Panama Canal treaty, but this has been a long, arduous process. You couldn't accelerate it. That takes time. The Middle East is another case. Although it may look like a stalemate...
...sputtered out, as has the strike for the most part. Nearly all U.S. farmers are concentrating now on plowing and planting, encouraged by the rise in some farm prices. Next morning the strikers began leaving the motels where they had slept three and four to a room. "What the hell," said Wheat Farmer Wilbur Burnside of eastern Washington, with back-to-the-land stoicism, "we tried...
...with mirth, backslapping with cool competence. As chief U.S. trade negotiator, a job he will retain, he demonstrated his unusual bargaining techniques in Tokyo earlier this year when he grabbed his Japanese counterpart, Nobuhiko Ushiba, in a Texas bear hug and bellowed, "Brother Ushiba, you're crazy as hell...
Notices to 3,300 colleges and universities, plus a wire-service story, brought the limericks rolling in. "The limerick," explained Rue, "is a non-threatening art form. People will write a limerick when poetry would scare the hell out of them." Members of the Mohegan community got together for one ten-hour limericking marathon to choose 86 finalists for Asimov...