Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years afterward, Cao's countrymen traded and established settlements near the river's mouth. But they did not go too far inland; 100 miles upstream lay a series of 32 cataracts now known as Livingstone Falls. A stretch of white water, appropriately named the Cauldron of Hell, stopped early explorers as effectively as if it were the edge of the earth...
...anyone had asked August Strindberg for his definition of hell, he would have given an implacable and desolated one-word answer-women. Or perhaps, wives...
Outside again, a man looms out from a corner like Harry Lyme. "Hi," he says. "Hello," you mumble nervously. But what the hell, surely the good guys do something more than drink coffee, what could possibly happen on the corner outside the police station anyway, with your down jacket and notepad you look like a stake-out so he's probably scared out of his mind--but why would he be talking to you then instead of running as if all Beezlebub's minions were after...
...with the spectacle of Billy Carter. However much Billy trades on his independence, he is, after all, the President's brother, and his attraction depends upon that presidential nimbus. Watergate discredited the presidency, but it does not follow that the office therefore deserves to be treated cheaply. ("Cheap, hell!" Billy might answer. "I'm expensive!") Gerald Ford and his family managed to invest the White House with a relaxed kind of dignity during their tenure. They did not try to sell blankets along Pennsylvania Avenue. Billy Carter is hardly subverting the Republic by being tacky, but the psychodrama...
...were they still undefeated, for in a performance that will be hard to duplicate, the Crimson took to the Stadium turf and basically beat the hell out of Dartmouth to the misleading tune of 31-25. The Big Green was outhit, outplayed, outfinessed and at times, just plain...