Word: helle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hell hath no fury like an attorney general misled. Janet Reno on Friday announced that she?s looking for an independent investigator to probe the Waco debacle, capping a week in which she?s done little to hide her displeasure at being left in a no-man?s-land by the FBI. On Wednesday Reno sent U.S. marshals across the road to seize evidence from FBI headquarters, in a high-profile slap-down of the bureau over its handling of Waco evidence. The New York Times reported Friday that tensions between the attorney general and FBI director Louis Freeh ?- which...
...descent into elder-care hell began in 1995, when my mother, then 69, was found to have Lou Gehrig's disease. It robbed her first of her speech (and boy, how she had loved to talk!), then of movement of her limbs. My mom and I had lots of issues never resolved since my teenage years. But rather than get therapy, I decided to spend more time with her, taking months off from work to listen to old records, watch Masterpiece Theatre videotapes and look at family pictures with her. I found old notes from her years as a decorator...
...chose a nice assisted-care facility with a spacious one-room apartment overlooking a courtyard in the Los Angeles suburb of Tarzana. But after just a month there, Round Two of elder-care hell began. While taking a walk around the block, he fell. I was out of town on assignment. By the time I got back to the city, 12 hours later, the local emergency-room doctors had doped him to keep him calm. He had gone crazy, they said, when they strapped him to the hospital bed. (I'd fight too!) He'd had three beers, they said...
...veered into artful cruelty. Her ambition has been curdled by this life sentence in a town she was dying to leave, and by having to teach idiots who may get a ticket out. A figure of fear, and possibly pity, Eve Tingle is a nightmare pedagogue --the teacher from Hell High...
...Hartman to write a speech for my swearing-in," said Ford. "He was a late-night operator, and he brought me a draft the morning before. I wasn't sure I wanted the 'nightmare' line in the speech. Bob blew up. He stamped toward the door and said, 'To hell with it. If that line is not in the speech, I'm quitting.' I read the speech over a few more times, and I got to like that line better. So I used it in the speech. And that is the line that everybody remembers...