Word: helling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demotion for refusing to take the test. Perhaps, though, accuracy is not the intent as Richard Nixon put it in the Watergate Tapes. "I don't know whether the detector tests) are accurate or not, but it doesn't make any difference. Test them all. It will scare the hell out of them...
...performances are giving Wall Street auto watchers something to shout about. "Super! Great! Beautiful! A hell of a job!" bubbled Michael Ward of New York City's Jesup & Lament Securities. The excitement was not over just the amount of profits but also how they were achieved: more efficient production with more automation, higher prices, lower costs, sharply reduced blue-and white-collar work forces. GM's earnings last year, for example, were about the same as in 1978, but with 1.7 million fewer vehicle sales...
They may, indeed they often do, protest that unvarying good luck is a hell of its own. To ordinary humans, such complaints in such circumstances verge on the insufferable...
...there was practically no purpose to which words could be put that White was unable to master." White was soon writing everything from light verse and cartoon captions (Mother to child: "It's broccoli, dear." Child to mother: "I say it's spinach and I say the hell with it") to "Notes and Comment," the opening section of each issue's "Talk of the Town...
...months in Terminal Island federal prison for contempt of court; near Los Angeles. Just after he was sentenced to a total of nine months in jail for disrupting two earlier federal court hearings, Flynt began shouting obscenities at Federal Judge Manuel Real and declaring, "I'm crazier than hell! I want a competency hearing." When he yelled, "Give me more!" Judge Real obligingly tacked on six additional months...