Word: helling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...depended on, who you were. For those taking examinations in the 90-degree heat, it as a hot, sweaty, miserable, stinking excuse for a day. For those studying for the next debacle, the day afforded an opportunity to say eloquently. "The hell with it," and find something more appealing...
...could not do it. Explained a Mercury official: "That thing is wobbling up there, and it's hard as hell to hold it within reasonable tolerances for such a delicate maneuver." When the scheduled instant came for the firing of the retrorockets over California. Carpenter apparently had the blunt end of the capsule pointed about...
...called up to the Angels' training camp this spring. He reported nine days late, explaining that he had been playing in a pool tournament in Trenton, N.J. No sooner was he in camp than he held a press conference-to complain about his $6,000 minimum contract. "Hell, I know I'm a rookie," said Belinsky, graciously. "I even got my hair cut so I'd look like one. But baseball is like pool. If you're playing for five cents a point, you don't do nothing. When it gets up to five...
Roaring into a hell-hot 3.443 m.p.h.. it peaked into a graceful arc. seemed to hover uncertainly for a brief moment, then hurtled downward. Minutes later, its tail skids carved a high rooster tail of dust in the wind-slicked silt of Rogers Dry Lake in California. The plane stopped. "Well." said Test Pilot Joe Walker as he threw off the switches in the cockpit, "there's that one for today." In his X-15, Walker had just streaked to a new altitude record for manned planes: 246.700 ft.-46.7 miles above the earth...
...work as a delivery boy for Paramount, trotting around from theater to theater with movie reels. Several years ago at a New York dinner, Harkins met Film Maker Adolph Zukor, who said, "General, you're a handsome man. We could have used you in the movies." Replied Harkins, "Hell, I worked for Paramount years ago, but no one made me an offer...