Word: helling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outbreak of World War I, Hoover declared, "Let fortune go to hell," abandoned business interests that were about to skyrocket in value, plunged into a selfless life of public service. Working in London, he helped some 120,000 Americans who were stranded in Europe without convertible currency, accepted their lOUs, and raised enough cash for the Americans to return home...
...developed a system of indirect elections called "Basic Democracy," under which voters are to choose 80,000 "basic democrats," or electors, who will cast their ballots next spring to elect a President. The men behind Fatima Jinnah, Ayub insists, want to make Pakistan "a paradise for politicians and a hell for the people...
...government say we got to creep before we walk," said a Kingston shoeshine boy, snapping his cloth. Then he looked up. "Hell, mon, we been creeping forever." Just finished celebrating its second anniversary of nationhood after 307 years of British rule, Jamaica is an impatient country, increasingly dissatisfied with merely creeping toward the accouterments of modern life that newly independent peoples feel they have coming to them. Jamaicans want TV sets, washing machines, new autos-and they want them soon...
...contact with a lot of softhearted, overemotional Italians. "The Tuscans aren't tenors. They speak: they don't sing. They don't wash out their throats with beautiful Italian phrases." The whole history of Tuscany, thinks Malaparte, can be expressed in a common Tuscan curse: "To hell with all of you, go shove...
Paddling Sedately. But daily crisis is, after all, a journalistic way of life, and most editors managed to hang onto their hats. "It was a hell of a dose of news," said Larry Fanning, executive editor of the Chicago Daily News, "so we printed it as it came along." The Boston Globe, which would feel naked without at least one Page One local story, managed to stay properly dressed all week. On a front page already jammed with developments in the Jenkins case and the latest word from Moscow, the Globe still found room to report that the wife...