Word: helling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shot a 56 for nine holes that day. Those of you in the know about these things will realize that while such a tally hardly had the golf world buzzing about the next Nicklaus, it was a hell of a score for someone who'd only hit golf balls through broken windmills...
...stories, Dracula or Tarzan. We need these guys around, and we tend to read them more than we read James Joyce." The author cherishes few illusions. He likes to be compared with "Jack London, who said, in effect, 'I'm not much of a writer but I'm one hell of an elaborator.' That's me." King barely gives himself a passing grade in freshness: "I've had about three original ideas in my life. The rest of them were bounces. I sense the limitations of where my talents are." Some of this sudden vote of no confidence may come...
...more carefully. Cursing effectively and economically requires a lot of skill and subtlety, more than these people can muster. The most common mistake is thinking that one word is just as good as another, or that bigger is better. This leads to such improbable insults as "Shit off!" or "Hell you, assbutt...
...widow of the assassinated opposition leader Benigno (Ninoy) Aquino Jr., had no trouble persuading official Washington that a strategic U.S. ally in the Pacific is in capable hands. "She knows how to deal with the problems of the Philippines," said a senior U.S. official. "She's really done a hell...
...scene as sexually frank, brutal, and hard to bear as any contained in Bertolucci's great mid-1970s films. And murder victims' mouths are stuffed with blue velvet swatches, the chosen fetish of Booth, who covers Jeffrey's face with lipstick kisses moments before beating the absolute hell...