Word: helling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Would he have remained as chief and taken orders from a black mayor? "Hell, yes!" was his answer. Still, his decision to leave at this time has probably hurt Bradley, if only slightly, and the black councilman-himself a former L.A. police lieutenant-will now have the added burden of proving to many whites that he is indeed for law and order...
...build a nation of "Christian Greeks"-while anyone who publicly doubts God or the army may be held guilty of blasphemy. These spiritual up-liftings are hastened, opponents of the military government say, by torture as well as exile. "Christians behave themselves because they are afraid of going to hell," explains Deputy Prime Minister Stylianos Pattakos. "Likewise, under our regime, Greeks behave because they are afraid. Only the bad people are going to be punished...
...funny lines, and I laughed very hard. But someday we won't laugh about the draft, the Kennedy assassination, Lyndon Johnson, Vietnam, or perverse sex. Someday Greetings will remind us of a time when we got hip, and made a Heaven out of a national Hell, but got debased, and arrived at something which was just a new hell all over again...
...through, however, went great. When Tommy shifted into reverse, the jeep nearly slid off the road, made a hell of a screech, and kicked up some dust. Tim looked at Eric and smiled; Eric returned with a big grin...
Religious belief, it would seem, has fallen on bad days. God is dead. Hell has cooled. Man's only heaven is what he can make of earth. Old-fashioned militant atheism may be on the wane, but to some appalled and devout Christians, unbelief seems ascendant, and Antichrist just around the corner. The trouble with the image, according to an international symposium on unbelief last week, is that it is all wrong. "The modern world," declared University of California Sociologist Robert N. Bellah without irony, "is as alive with religious possibility as any epoch in human history...