Word: helling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that behind him. Returning last month from a six-week jaunt to Europe, Minton raised legal eyebrows by reverting to partisanship, endorsing Candidate Adlai Stevenson as "a very able man" and denigrating Candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower as "terribly handicapped physically." When his discretion was challenged, he blustered: "Hell, I wasn't speaking judicially...
...rison. "He was gesticulating and nearly hysterical," according to Harrison, who had never come up against an armed reader before. "The gun flew from his hand and hit a rock. Courtney screamed. I felt an awful pain and fell down. Weldy beat it like a shot out of hell." Govoni, who was armed, lit out fast, too. Like Weldy, he said he rushed off to get help, though both seemed equally eager to get out of gunfire range. That left Harrison, clutching a flesh wound in his left shoulder, and Miss Courtney...
...slave of nature and the son of hell! Thou slander of thy mother's heavy
...wild, wind-whipped charge of cavalry. He is even better in tracing the terrible retreat of Napoleon's Grande Armee from Moscow as it drowns in mud, freezes stiff in blizzards, and curls like a dying snake across a winter landscape as desolate as the ninth ring of Hell...
Quality Control. In Passaic, N.J., thieves lifted a dilapidated pair of shoes, an old shirt and a necktie from the apartment of Arthur Church, left a note: "How in hell can honest crooks like us make a decent living when we get stuck with junk like yours...