Word: helle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...critical hobby-horses have been ridden to hell, and the trumpets are put away. Edmund Wilson and the Nobel Prize Committee and the Soviet Writers Union and the American newspaper editorial pages have had their say on Pasternak--and perhaps now a second reading and some thoughts are in order...
...Senate so often restores the budget cuts he has made. "The Senate piles everything on earth on these bills." he grumps, "and they always wait until the last minute to do it." Cannon always wants the House to insist on its cuts in conference committee. "Sam Rayburn says, 'Hell, we've got to get out of here.' I always say we can't accept this change. But Sam always says we've got to get the hell out of here...
...newspapers raise a lot of hell about how arbitrary we are," says Smith. "But we grant thousands of rules while denying one." Moreover, the Rules Committee can be -and is -used by the leadership to bottle up irresponsible legislation for which Congressmen may be politically committed to vote if it reaches the floor. "Many, many times." says Howard Smith, "members have told me that they were going to speak publicly for a bill, and if it got out on the floor they would have to vote for it, but they were against the bill and wanted it killed...
Englishman, Go Now! The tension began when Dr. Hastings Banda, the fanatic Nyasaland physician whose cry is "To hell with federation!" (TIME, Jan. 5), stopped over in Salisbury. As part of its new get-tough policy against nationalist agitators, Southern Rhodesia classified him as a "prohibited immigrant" and sent him on his way. As usual, Dr. Banda made political hay of it ("I am the bad boy. I went to Southern Rhodesia and spoiled their 'natives' for them"), but other African nationalists did not leave it at that. At a mass meeting in Salisbury, the fiery young general...
...from the Government." Well, me and a couple million other veterans haven't collected any loot. I served six years in the Marine Corps in World War 11 and one year doing police action duty in Korea, but I don't go around bragging about what the hell I collected or what education I got from the Government. Everything I got I got on my own, no Government handout...