Word: helling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late middle age, will come as well. They will wander over the pastoral killing ground. They will search in the cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer for the graves of friends they fought beside. They will think of themselves singing as they set off from England, "Glory, glory, what a hell of a way to die..." They will remember exactly the spot where they were pinned down by German machine guns, or where a shell blast sent a truck pinwheeling. They will go up again to Pointe du Hoc and shake their heads again in wonder at the men who climbed...
...horror of stepping on corpses. But I finally reached him 200 yds. away. Then Taylor did an amazing thing. He stood up and shouted, 'Two kinds of people are staying on this beach, the dead and those who are going to die. Now let's get the hell out of here.' And then...
Davy Crockett once snarled at Tennessee voters who refused to re-elect him to Congress: "You can go to hell, but I'm going to Texas." Gary Hart was more polite last week, merely expressing disappointment over a bruising loss in the Tennessee Democratic primary before he, like Crockett, huffed off to Texas to try to rebuild his fortunes. But he wound up in the same place as ol' Davy: the Alamo...
...Marines, a schoolteacher in Wichita, Kans., and dozens of celebrities from Jane Fonda to O.J. Simpson. The runners will be, if anything, even more varied. Leading off the relay from the U.N. will be the grandchildren of the great Olympians Jim Thorpe and Jesse Owens. But in Ventura, Calif., Hell's Angel George Christie will carry the flame, decked out in a regulation Olympic running outfit embellished with touches like a silver skull earring and lurid tattoos. The L.A.O.O.C. cashed his $3,000 sponsorship check, unaware of his club allegiance. Says Christie: "Their uniform will never look so cool...
...year-old Collins in Playboy several months ago was startling indeed, and was meant to open readers' ears as well as eyes. Said Collins "I've always been pretty. I'm prettier now than when I was twenty. So what if I have a few lines. What the hell...