Word: helling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...higher in the September night. Not because dear old Harvard won any more triumphantly on the football field--though of course it did. No, this autumn will be most pleasurable to me because this autumn two evil men have irretrievably consigned their immortal souls to the burning perdition of Hell...
...coaches recognized that numbers can't measure the skill Hall brings to his position. He has speed, razor-sharp reflexes and what Brown Coach Cliff Stevenson calls "one hell of a punt." His long goal kicks trigger the quick Crimson attack...
...number of exceptions made to thisrule, he said, "I don't think it was a hell of alot." But he added, "The general plan providedonly senior faculty. However, there were thosecandidates who were on they verge of securingtenure and were included in the University'slong-term plans...There weren't a hell of a lot ofthose...the exceptions to the rule would probablyamount to less than 2 percent...
...passengers heading up an escalator toward the exits at King's Cross, London's busiest subway station, figured they were nearing the end of their commute home. At 7:29, their routine ride became an ascent into hell. Flames erupted along the moving wooden stairs and spread rapidly upward. Those people riding near the top of the crowded staircase were delivered directly into the center of the blazing inferno. Unable to turn back, they could only push forward into the flames, their clothes and hair catching fire as they dashed for the exits...
...sense immediately that circumstances are going to make them strange bedfellows in a motel hell. You know, too, that much worse will follow as this misalliance uses all the modes of transportation specified in the title (plus such unnamed delights as a farm truck, a refrigerator truck and a bus that grinds to an unpleasant halt) in the desperate effort to get home. We are also aware of two agreeable things about Hughes. The first is that he has a nice, easy gift for unforced farce (see Ferris Bueller's Day Off). The other is that his teen romances...