Word: helling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first five days were hell. The M-17 military helicopter did not come with our supplies. We just had Energile [a protein-enriched food pack used in high-altitude warfare] and ice. Sometimes we ate ice with sugar...
Since this is the week of our 223rd national birthday, celebration is called for, and I'd like to celebrate...us. It's fun to catalog the lovable stuff about Americans, especially since we have no shortage of public scolds telling us our morals have gone to hell, our families are falling apart, our kids are spoiled rotten, our government can't do anything right, and we are, in short, the sorriest bunch of decadents since the palmy days of the late Roman Empire...
...three upscale creepies: as a space traveler in The Astronaut's Wife, as a bookseller searching for an accursed text in Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate and as Ichabod Crane in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow. Late this month Samuel L. Jackson will chase, or run like hell from, a pack of very smart sharks in Deep Blue...
...person primary race, McCain hopes his personal story will implicitly carry a critique of Bush's. At the age of 40, Bush was still finding himself in Midland, Texas; McCain had already served as a naval aviator in the Vietnam War and endured 5 1/2 years of hell as a prisoner of war. And while Bush has used his father's name and connections to get ahead in business and politics, McCain turned down paternal protection when it mattered most. As the son of the commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet during the war, he resisted pressure from...
...stake this time: the fate of the world. The lads see a movie starring their favorite Canadian gross-out comics, Terrance and Phillip, and parrot the naughty language. The South Park moms blame Canada, and in a trice we're war-ready. Meanwhile, Kenny (the dead one) goes to hell, where Satan and Saddam lurk. It takes a children's crusade--La Resistance--to get to the final rainbow...