Word: helling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decided not to risk the possibility that the wicked uncle's soul might thus reach heaven. "No./ Up sword, and know thou a more horrid hent;/ When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage . . . / Then trip him, that . . . / his soul may be as damn'd and black/ As hell, whereto it goes...
...cruelest imagined torments of hell once seemed not only very real but a perfectly legitimate form of punishment, since God himself had permitted and even approved the eternal fires. And with what a hunger for retribution did Dante identify each king or warrior he reported seeing in the Inferno, buried up to the eyes in rivers of blood. With what zeal did Bosch and Bruegel similarly portray malefactors being torn at by giant birds or skeletons. Yet the avenger himself was traditionally punished too. Orestes goes mad; Hamlet dies of poison; Captain Ahab ends in a tangle of rope dragged...
...those hell-bent on going pre-professional at a school other than Harvard, Harvard's best cocktail party conversation course can be gotten out of the way in only 8 weeks. Indeed FNAR S-13e zips you through one century of Western art every five days, allowing you to get back to the more serious professional pursuits of organic chemistry and business economics...
...insured. The chilling effect is considerable, believe me. I consider myself to have my share of guts, but the next reporter who comes to me with a story and tells me it will cost me $1,275,000 to run it, better have himself one hell of a yarn...
...third secret of the Madonna of Fatima." Agca was referring to three messages the Virgin Mary is said to have given to children in the Portuguese town of Fatima in a series of apparitions beginning on May 13, 1917. Two of the messages deal with a vision of hell and a call to save Russia for Christianity; the third remains a secret known to the Pope and possibly some other church officials...