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Word: helling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hell it is," snorted Haskins. "What kind of expression is that?" shouted Corso. "Don't you know that hell is passe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Fried Shoes | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...overtones, a new law to encourage foreign investment, and on measures to bring down the cost of living (in one month alone the index fell 12.7 points). Fortnight ago he banned all imports from Communist China. Few Thailanders seem disturbed by Sarit's end of the parliamentary regime. "Hell," said one Thai recently, "we are saving $750,000 a year in salaries alone. We used to pay members of Parliament that to steal us blind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Communism on the Defensive | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...than passing it, but when it came to a vote, Butler led his followers to an easy victory, 235 to 88. Soon a London woman may be able to stop and look in a shop window in the evening without an indignant prostitute hissing in her ear: "Get the hell off my beat!" On the other hand, she may have a policeman tap her on the shoulder and caution her against loitering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Pushed off the Sidewalk | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...Sheba "because she is black but comely, as the Song of Songs says." For the score, he plans to approach Leonard Bernstein. Solomon and Sheba, says Graves, will be "different from the film on the same subject. Mine will be light and funny. I'll get a hell of a kick out of doing it." He also expects to make a quarter of a million dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: My Fair Sheba | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...Soviet citizen died, and the Devil gave him a choice of going to the Communist or the capitalist Hell. Unhesitatingly he chose the Communist "because there is certain to be a fuel shortage in that sector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: SOVIET JOKES | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

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