Word: helling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Returning to Libreville, Mba made it clear that if he had been tough on the opposition before, he now would be hell on wheels. Pledging "no pardon or pity" but rather "total punishment"-probably death-for the insurrectionists, he seemed to have reached his original goal: an unopposed oligarchy...
...EASY LIFE. In this brilliant tragicomedy from Italy, Vittorio Gassman is the hedonistic hell-raiser who rescues a shy young student from his books, squanders his money, and seals his doom...
...Volovchenko-the sixth official to hold that thankless post since Khrushchev became boss of the party in 1953-last week outlined the costliest, most ambitious program to boost farm output that has ever been undertaken by a Soviet government. After decades of starveling treatment at the hands of leaders hell-bent on industrialization, Soviet agriculture is finally to get the machinery, fertilizer and technology that have revolutionized U.S. and Western European farming over the past 50 years. But for city dwellers, Volov-chenko's promised bounty came too late. After a winter of scarcities, they learned only two weeks...
...penitent for many a clandestine night. But love of woman, like love of God, can eventually cool. The mysteries of the confessional stripped away, the couple see each other for what they are: rather drab, aging, unattractive people. The "holy night of love" turns into a quarrelsome hell. The lady returns to the church. Giovanni, now defrocked, joins a ship of cutthroats, who plunder and murder but who, at least, have no illusions about themselves. "The sea is the only thing I do feel is holy," says Giovanni. "However it may storm and rage, I thank it. Because...
Actually, it was not that clear-cut a victory. Though the case was the biggest public-v. private-power dispute since the private Idaho Power Co. won the right to build three dams on the Hell's Canyon stretch of the Snake River ten years ago, there were complicating factors, as the FPC, painstakingly pointed out in its three-part decision...