Word: helling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West Virginia, the 42-year-old lawman drove a tractor trailer for 17 years. He also had a country-music band in which his wife Gayle Lynne played bass. One night he watched a man get shot during a fight in front of the grandstand, and he "stopped raisin' hell" and turned to police work. Gayle Lynne said, "What're you gonna do? Save the world?" And he said, "No. If I can just save one person, it'll be worth it." He also gave up drinking and kicked his cigar habit...
State Rep. A. Joseph DeNucci (D-Newton), the favored candidate for the post, joined the past week's rush to declare candidacy before the convention. David Williams, his press secretary, said that most voters "don't know a hell of a lot" about the $60,000-a-year office. "There hasn't been a real race for Auditor in 46 years," he said. The successor to departing Auditor, John Finnegan, will serve as a "watchdog" over government programs' budgets...
Grantham said he was "mad as hell" that Nunziata brought the issue before the Canadian House of Commons. "Nunzita called it 'Fossilgate,' but it was just the way science works," he said...
...emotional cards, Viscott sometimes seems to be cannibalizing old song lyrics and old movie scripts ("Nobody does it better"; "No matter what happens, we always have us"), but he is willing to tackle unusual subjects like insecurity in the office. One such message -- "Your efficiency sometimes scares the hell out of me, but I appreciate, value and need you" -- was inspired by Viscott's supercompetent assistant. Says he: "She's so efficient, I thought, 'What does she need me for?' and I wrote this card...
...three segments feature unrelated storylines. One describes the adventures of Gus Gespacho, a private detective reminiscent of Philip Marlowe; another depicts the life and times of a small-town boy who wants to make it big in cowtipping. The third script, called "Ed the Busdriver vs. the Shriners from Hell," focuses on life after a nuclear...