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Word: helling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play boccie, an Italian game played with large balls on a lawn. "He warned me he was going to beat me, although I proceeded to leave him a good deal behind. Then he started making all kinds of fancy shots. I told the Chancellor that he played crooked as hell, to which he answered, 'Here I make the rules!'...He cautioned me not to be frivolous...

Author: By Alice P. Albright, | Title: Dean Acheson | 5/17/1961 | See Source »

...good or phony. Says a National Council of Churches official: "One of the things every minister dreads is preaching a Mother's Day sermon. Those with courage don't." Some women would just as soon forget the whole thing. Says New Yorker Betty Carter, mother of five: "Hell, I feel like Mother India all year round. I see no point in being reminded of it once a year." Recalls Actress Florence Eldridge (Mrs. Fredric March): "When my two children were young, I had to sit at the table with a crown of flowers on Mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: So Out It's In | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

...weekday morning, a small, wiry man in a khaki shirt and faded blue jeans hurries across Los Angeles' San Vicente Boulevard, enters a grimy old commercial building, and climbs the stairs to a large studio. There, Painter Rico Lebrun finds himself in what looks like a cooled-off hell. The walls are lined with massive, tortured figures drawn on huge pieces of parchment. A decapitated man holds his head in his hands; an adjoining figure is riven from neck to thigh; a third figure turns slowly into a serpent. These, along with similar drawings on display this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Death & Transfiguration | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

...Dolce Vita. The road to hell in this I case is Rome's Via Veneto, and it is paved with the good intentions of a gossip reporter, who slides into corruption (he becomes a pressagent) during three screen hours divided equally between boredom and skillfully done scenes of moral decay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: May 12, 1961 | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

...People, Places, and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel, by John Cheever. Pursuing the invisible fly in the ointment of their lives, John Cheever's decent, middle-class people drop into a limbo of alcoholic oblivion, sexual promiscuity and lonely despair that very much resembles hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: May 12, 1961 | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

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