Word: helling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lieutenant general, resigned his Air Force commission, cut clean away from the military, and opened the FAA for business on Jan.1, 1959. "It was the hardest thing I ever did, resigning from the Air Force," says Quesada, "but the law [requiring a civilian head] was clear as hell." The law, by implication, also called for a strong, experienced administrator, and Quesada's whole life and personality fit the law like a made-to-order lock...
...took a hell of a licking," said a top steel executive...
...position to offer him a strong inducement to stay with the Times for life." Said Scotty Reston: "The man who directs the flow of news from this capital-in this revolutionary period-through this newspaper-makes a contribution to his country. That's a hell of a responsibility...
...only remedy for life is death. All truth is raw. All faith is blind. Change is inevitable, yet insufferable. Freedom of choice never includes the choice to be free. Love, marriage and the family are heaven's gifts in hell's wrappings...
...melodramatic devices, Author Compton-Burnett is rooted in the long and highly realistic English fictional tradition of asking where the money comes from and who gets it. The question she asks that is not English, but universal, is what life is and how one gets through the labyrinthine hell...