Word: helle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours later, Vaughan stepped off the train in Washington's sweltering Union Station. He tried to duck, but newsmen cornered him. One reporter asked Vaughan who paid for the Guatemala vacation. Vaughan flushed, drew back to strike the questioner, then changed his mind. "What the hell business is it of yours?" roared Vaughan, ". . . it cost me $2,000 to take my family on this vacation . . . it's nobody's goddamned business but mine and you can quote...
Buyers on the Sideline. "Bert Howe, the barber, has a single house that he has cut up into four apartments, and rents three of them. He owns the place, worth about $12,000, and would like to buy some other property. 'I think there's a hell of a depression coming,' he said, tamping tobacco into his pipe. 'Right now I wouldn't buy a chickenhouse. I'm put and I'm staying put. I lived through the other depression and saw what happened.' Mrs. Howe said she would like to have...
Hafiz and Bashir denounce the doctrine of original sin. "How cruel," says Hafiz, "to think a newborn baby is a sinner." Bashir adds cheerfully: "Islam says Heaven is eternal, but that Hell is only temporary. Hell is like a hospital, a place where people get better...
...want all hell to break loose!" bellowed Impresario Leon Leonidoff one morning last week in the rehearsal gloom of Manhattan's cavernous Radio City Music Hall. By the time the Russian accent had floated up to the stage, about half a block away, things had begun...
...team to the halfway mark, where Patton went into his relaxed "float" and won by two strides in 20.4 (equaling Ralph Metcalfe's 16-year-old N.C.A.A. record). Said Stanfield afterwards: "I figured I'd stay with him, then coast . . . then I had to run like hell to catch up as close as I did." Patton, the tension over, was out of sight as usual, racked and retching with violent nausea. With the help of his two victories, U.S.C. breezed off with the team championship. The score: Southern Cal. 55 2/5, U.C.L.A. 31, Stanford 30, Michigan State...