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Word: helling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Parker said most of his dozen consecutive reelections have been unopposed. "I work like hell at the job because I happen to be a Republican in a Democratic area," he said, adding that such dedication had won respect from local members of the state's majority party...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: K-School Administrator Faces Senate Veteran | 11/4/1986 | See Source »

...Watergate, hell," his neighbor said. "We're cheering because she broke the pressmen's union...

Author: By Jerry Doolittle, | Title: A Strange Yearning for The Truth | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...woman should ever have to go through the hell on earth that I experienced. The rape was violent, and so was my illegal abortion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Reporter's Notebook | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...Walter was comfortably supporting his wife and their two children on his $35,000 pay as a welder on an oil rig off the Louisiana coast when the petroleum price slump hit and cost him his job. Says he: "It doesn't take long for everything to go to hell. I might never make what I used to." Walter and his family packed up and migrated to Oregon, where they moved in with his wife's parents, and he took a $20,000 welding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the Middle Class Shrinking? | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...Damn it! Why the hell are you asking my name?" is Ingrid M. Geerken's imitation of "Catcher in the Rye" author J.D. Salinger. "Phonies are always asking crap like that. I don't know why, but they get a goddamn kick out of asking people who they are and what their names are and if they have a permanent mailing address. Those phony bastards really kill me. They want to know what your goddamn address is so that they can send you a goddamn letter saying that you're not good enough for them. Things like that really depress...

Author: By Sara O. Vargas, | Title: Yale Juniors Publish College Essay Anthology | 11/1/1986 | See Source »

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