Word: helling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would want to make that claim today. Clinton Lyons, the outgoing acting president of the federally funded Legal Services Corporation, ruefully concludes: "Perhaps we went too far in the '70s. Now it seems that we're going to the other extreme and just saying, 'To hell with...
...subordinates who must sometimes be disappointed. "It's a tough time now. We still think that Mr. B. will walk in Tuesday at 11," he says. He shifts the pillows under his back and adds in his blunt, candid way, "I don't know how the hell I'll do it all, but I can exercise diplomacy like nobody else...
...death by injection--itself will surely prove the starting point for a long debate. One problem is that the method has simply not been adequately tested. Thought to be quick and painless, the injection technique could also cause a bloodbath. As one doctor explained: "Sometimes it's tough as hell to find a vein. If you miss, the pain can be excruciating. And besides, even if you do get the vein, no one is really sure the convict doesn't suffer for a few minutes while the drug is being administered...
...Reagan projects a peculiar quality of vulnerability. The White House staff and Cabinet members worry deeply when they have to tell the boss he is in trouble. One aide fretted for hours about the glum presentation that he was to make at one budget session. "I finally said the hell with it," he reports. "I decided if I couldn't tell it to him straight, I shouldn't be working here." Reagan was not visibly affected, but the aide still fears that he put his point too bluntly...
...movie's best scene occurs when Nolte and Murphy go into a country boy bar, full of rednecks in cowboy hats. "These are my kind of people," chuckles Nolte, "they sure as hell don't like you." Murphy takes the remark as a dare, and after borrowing Nolte's badge, breaks the big mirror behind the bartender. The room falls quiet. "Alright now, listen up!" yells Murphy. "I don't like white people...