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Word: hell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...information are ambiguous: they would like to blackmail some money out of the union local, but knowing their leaders are corrupt also stirs reformist impulses in them, and it is their contrary feelings that provide the film's human interest and dramatic suspense. Finally, there is hell to pay. Kotto, playing a sometime small-time criminal, is murdered in a particularly grueling way. The union buys off Pryor with a shop steward's job. Keitel finally turns FBI stoolie. In short, their venture into crime and/or conscience, as one could predict from their earlier lives, ends with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Union Dues | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...lavish sentiment that still stirs faint echoes of the boys down on the corner, harmonizing on the Top 40. Raised in a solidly middle-class section of Hicksville, Long Island, Joel, 28, began piano lessons at four, but also boxed in school and hung out with the sort of hell raisers that would have made Virginia's mother double-lock the door. Here is how he tells it: "You got into junior high, you could go one of three ways. You could be a collegiate, a hitter or a brownie?the kid who wears brown shoes with white socks, carries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Brash Ballad of Billy Joel | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...fans, the last week has been hell. Nature's droppings paralyzed Harvard right in the middle of the week, leaving us with no excuse to sleep all day. Worse yet, the tube, our hallowed shrine, has been useless. Empty. Boring. Not even Sports Challenge or Roller Derby. Even the most dedicated armchair beer guzzler can't call As The World Turns sports...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Winter Sports | 2/11/1978 | See Source »

During the talks, Sadat told Congressmen that he would "raise hell" if they did not approve a weapons sale. "I am speaking as a Partner and I am threatening," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sadat Ends Talks | 2/9/1978 | See Source »

...iron hand with which my grandmother ruled my grandfather. The moral of this, I suppose, is that among the vast numbers of humans on the globe, an immense variety of relationships occur. But we are all of the same stuff, and we should try like hell not to hurt each other, whether we are brilliant men or brilliant women, brown-haired men or brown-haired women, or any of the other billions of ways we humans have devised of categorizing one another...

Author: By Nicholas B. Gunther, | Title: Men, Women and Sexism | 2/9/1978 | See Source »

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