Word: helling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the U.S. is going to hell in a hand basket-and only half-safe at that-the Democrats in Congress tried to save the nation by adding two new states, buying medical research, and bringing in a civil rights bill. "If only there had been a Democrat in the White House," said Church, "there would have been plenty of money to enact housing, unemployment, school construction and other such bills without deficit spending and new taxes...
...head. Each ball went through the wire screen. Next night I was warming up near the screen. A fan stood up. 'Hey, Dalkowski,' he hollered. 'You pitching tonight?' I said it looked that way, and he muttered, 'Then I'm getting the hell out of here-and I'm taking my kids with...
Though the film is shapeless and its ending sissified (O'Hara let his hero go to hell, good woman and all), there are a few nice touches. Says a married chick to a dastard who is fumbling with her farthingale: "I think I'll go put on something a little more comfortable, like my husband." And when an overheated party girl who is trying to climb into Newman's cummerbund tells him, "I'm crowding 19," he asks, "Years or guys?" Actress Woodward is sexily soulless as a wife who flies her scarlet letter...
...hell-west-and-crooked-much askew...
...authors might have been more critical of some sources and more revealing in etymology. For instance, no attempt is made to trace the origin of that wonder word "viggerish." There are other omissions; how did they ever miss such expressions as on the q.t., go pound sand (meaning "The hell with you, bub"), sitzfleisch (perseverance), penobscot (falsie), fen (well known to every boy who ever played marbles), screech (rotgut), or that masterpiece of imaginative profanity, the blivit (a term of personal description usually defined...