Word: helling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Remember when Truman partisans used to interrupt his speeches with shouts of "Give 'em hell, Harry...
...course, we needed a piece on the Harvard reaction, which was pretty easy to do, Yovicsin would be somewhat skeptical, and would oppose the move because the game was such a massive social event. The players wouldn't like it a hell of a lot either Scott Jacobs wrote a piece on the indignant reaction of the cheerleaders, and Southwick speculated on the chances of the NCAA rules committee allowing Yale to play alumni, including Braian Dowling, in place of its syphilitic varsity. Somehow, the disease changed to gonorrhea, which is after all, a little messier and a lot more...
...read them in quick succession with an urgent, almost feminine sing-song. He stepped back from the mike for just a second after each one, flashing a sly twinkle or a sheepish shrug as the poem demanded. The crowd loved the shrugs: each one said, What the hell, sounds good, don't it? The boyishness of his manner-you got the idea that the whole role of the Coming Poet strikes him as outrageously funny-endeared him to the audience. They liked him because he is profound, but they loved him be he thinks...
...context they function somewhat as does the prologue to Henry V, as an apology and craftsman's argument: "What the hell, if you really want to wait sixteen years come back and see if we're still here." But they also meant: "This play's message is timeless, and its people are such as have lived, live, and shall live...
...right you guys," he hollered. "What the hell's the matter here. With the talent you got, there's no reason why you should be like this. Just because a quarterback quits on you, it wrecks your season. Let's have a little spirit...