Word: helling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Liberal ticket but racked up more votes than President Garcia himself. In doing so, he defeated the man the U.S. most wanted to see defeated-Garcia's running mate, Jose Laurel Jr., a pouchy-eyed lover of nightclubs and strong drink who remarked to one Nacionalista audience: "To hell with the Americans." Laurel's campaign was marked by handouts of cigarette lighters and switchblade knives, and the appearance of contraceptives inscribed: "Be safe with Laurel." (The Nacionalistas indignantly insisted that it was the Liberals who had passed them...
...Japanese seaside village of Kawana, hell-for-celluloid Director John Huston was about to shoot a panoramic movie scene encompassing some 350 fisherfolk extras, all decked out in elaborate 19th century samurai costumes, tunics, kimonos and big wigs. Suddenly a voice bellowed in Japanese over the village's loudspeaker: "Dolphins!" Departing radically from the script, the male extras quickly put to sea in Huston's rented sampans while the women took off their film kimonos and excitedly awaited the return of their men. Net catch for the inscrutable villagers: 270 dolphins worth $3,500 in the seafood market...
...zest has gone out of American intellectual life because the economy has achieved what the critics have always wanted it to achieve." Or, as one M.I.T. senior puts it: "We think we're getting a pretty good deal. The world needs us; we're in demand. Hell, I'll be making $450 a month as soon as I graduate...
Walter Rauschenbusch labored from 1886 to 1897 among the poor of Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen-reading Tolstoy, Mazzini, Marx, and supporting the reform movement of Single-Taxer Henry George...
...coldly vindictive and diabolically foresighted. He not only sends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to England with a sealed letter containing their own death warrants, but urges England's king to bump them off without warning-so that they cannot be shriven by a priest and will surely go to hell...