Word: helling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bozzotto's union activists refused to leave the club's kitchen until Harvard officials agreed to negotiate on a labor dispute. The workers this union leader represents were so incited that one employee described the Faculty Club as utterly repressive. "It's like Poland. It's just hell. It's like Solidarity...
...experienced climbing clubs to call off ascents the previous day? Wayne Litzenberger, who lost his 15-year-old daughter Alison, gave voice to typical reflections. "I would have expected they would have had wands to leave on the ground. That they would have had a radio. Why the hell didn't they have at least one of those things along...
There is art in The Garden of Eden; there is also evidence of many artifacts. Hemingway began the book after World War II. In 1947 he wrote the critic Maxwell Geismar, "Getting very big but I cut the hell out of it periodically." Just how big became the concern of Scribners Editor Tom Jenks, 35, who got the job of salvaging a 247-page novel out of 1,500 pages of manuscript. "Editing Hemingway was like wrestling with a god," says the amiable Virginian. What Jenks does not say is that the rules of the game require that...
...conceded there was some resistance to his policies at first. "Some people called me a little dictator, a little Hitler," he said. "I was fighting tooth and nail to clean up the department, and it seemed like everything I did got blowed out of proportion. It was all over hell." The marshal expertly maneuvered his squad car into a position to cut off the young bikers. Both got off with warnings, and the admonition that failure to correct their legal obligations would amount to $700 in fines next time...
...newspaper Izvestiya reported, that fire fighters had to climb to the 90-ft.-high roof of an adjoining building to aim their hoses down on the blaze. "Every step taken by the fire fighters in their battle against the flames was incredibly difficult," the account continued, "because of the hell-like heat from the melting surface" of the asphalt roof. The following day a 1,100-bus convoy that stretched 13 miles took 2 hrs. 40 min. to evacuate residents to nearby communities...