Word: helling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...delighted that the public outcry thwarted the Defense Department's plans to wound dogs by firing squads so that military doctors can learn to treat the injuries [Aug. 8]. But I mourn for the pigs, cattle, monkeys and other animals that continue to endure hell in slaughterhouses and research laboratories. When they cry out, no one listens...
...first time in three years, a full-blowing hurricane slammed onto the U.S. mainland, rumbling through Texas with a counterclockwise crunch of 115-m.p.h. winds. Galveston was swamped. Window panes popped from Houston's glass-and-steel towers, spewing shards over the streets below. What was hell in Texas held out some heavenly hopes for parts of the parched heartland, where the corn is withering on the stalks. But Alicia's leftover showers as it moved north were probably too late to save much of the devastated crop in what threatens to be the smallest corn harvest...
...trip north across Canada required seven hops, and on July 31, after 10 hr. 1 min. of dodging cirrus clouds to avoid icing, Taylor became the first person to reach the Pole in a plane so small. "I overflew it, identified it, took some pictures and got the hell out," he said. "That's a really weird place...
...Forrest Fenn, owner of a gallery in Santa Fe, N. Mex., the onetime Governor of Texas and presidential hopeful wants to sell off some of his acquisitions. Price: $12,000 to $15,000 apiece. After all, argues Fenn, "If they're as good as real, then what the hell are we talking about? I mean, what is art?" A question to ponder...
Complaints that management has been insensitive to employees and concern over the quality of programming are new and highly destructive troubles for NPR. When these worries (perhaps more common in commercial endeavors) haunt a network that has flourished on cooperation and high quality, it doesn't leave a hell...