Word: helling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Holman finished, Daley stalked out scowling. Next day he had still more to scowl about: as he marched through downtown Chicago at the head of the N.A.A.C.P.'s Independence Day parade, there were some ominous portents-signs saying such things as MAYOR DALEY, WHAT IN HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE? And when, at parade's end, Daley tried to address a throng of some 20,000, a terrible to-do broke loose. As Daley faced the crowd, there were boos, hisses, and chants of "Daley must go ... Down with ghettos." For more than ten minutes...
...once ruled the five kingdoms of Celtic Ireland still clatter across country. As the island's endless sleight-of-sky creates and dissolves horizons, the landscape seems dreamily unreal. The reality of Ireland is special: it lies on a border region where tragedy and laughter, jollity and gloom, hell and the happy isles converge-and as such it may reflect human existence more truly than what usually passes for realism...
...interpretive, lively, but still sufficiently serious-minded so that no Long Islander will feel compelled to read any New York newspaper." When the first issue of Newsday came off the press in an old garage in Hempstead in 1940, Alicia was disappointed: "I'm afraid it looks like hell." It was soon looking better as Alicia poured her energies into the paper, bringing it to life with a healthy mixture of news, irreverence and breeziness. Newsday's format was novel for a tabloid, with large type, three-column width on its pages, and a center Feature section stuffed...
...Does that little lady in the tweed suit really run that big, noisy Long Island newspaper?" an incredulous New York banker once asked one of her editors. "Run it?" he replied. "Hell, she drives it!" In 1954, for crusading against labor racketeering, Newsday won its first Pulitzer Prize, and by this year it had grown into the twelfth largest evening daily in the U.S., with a circulation of 370,000. It grew fat on advertising, now carries more linage than any New York daily, and is second in the U.S. only to the Los Angeles Times. Said one former editor...
...coony additions are only part of a nationwide move by amusement parks to take the people for a ride. And the take is good: amusement parks show a healthy upswing of attendance this summer. Says Editor Irwin Kirby of the trade's Amusement Business, "It looks like one hell of a season if the weather just gives these boys a break...