Word: helling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Curtis Tiernan, chaplain of Artillery Captain Truman's regiment in France in World War I, told how Harry had averted panic, when his men were caught in crossfire, with some "good, plain Missouri talk." Had the chaplain rebuked Harry for his ear-scorching remarks? Replied Tiernan: "Oh, hell no!-sorry." On a pickup from the Chicago wingding, Adlai Stevenson defined hell-giving Harry as "an irrepressible member of the non-Beat Generation." When the long love feast ended, the guest of honor was moved as seldom before: "I can't express what I feel because...
...significant are their reasons: "commuters are too homogenous a group," and "commuters are cheated out of college life." One non-resident even expressed the thought, "commuting is, generally speaking, a drag," and another unhappy student closed his little essay with these words: "war and commuting--they're both hell...
...National People's Congress. One subject not originally on the agenda caused the most heat. The subject: Tibet. "The Tibetan reactionaries," sneered Premier Chou Enlai, "often put on pious airs and express the hope that everyone will go to heaven. But they have turned Tibet into a hell on earth." Another speaker charged that "the British imperialists and Indian expansionists instigated the Tibetan upper-strata reactionary clique to carry out a traitorous armed rebellion . . . We want to warn the Indian expansionists . . . Please be more clear-minded; do not lift a rock that will squash your own feet...
Withal, if you know what I mean, Ida is a pretty good show. People who like Gilbert and Sullivan will probably be reasonably happy with it. People who do not like Gilbert and Sullivan can go to hell...
...mounted yet another assault on Antarctica. It may have been just as well. His finest hour as an explorer was when he brought the battered Trans-Antarctic Expedition back to civilization and proudly wrote to his wife: "Not a life lost, and we have been through Hell...