Word: helling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...held sway over these proceedings, Daschle's final defeat--when the G.O.P. rammed through its road map for the next week--should have sent him to the microphones. There he should have struck an aggrieved pose and bloviated freely, blaming the vindictive Republicans for shattering Senate comity in their hell-bent effort to destroy the President, or some such transgression. But instead he threw out the handbook. The South Dakotan stood before the cameras, blinking modestly and hunching his slight frame just a bit, and tossed lush, fragrant bouquets at the other side. "I appreciate very much Senator Lott...
...young cousin who, informed that the best Cardinal becomes Pope, asked, "So Mark McGwire will be next?" Tom, the twin with the hat, reports some of his classmates talking about scalping papal tickets. "The first thing that came into my mind," he says, "is that they're going to hell." That merits a couple of giggles...
...Jewish & Hebrew Literature James L. Kugel of Literature and Arts C-37, "The Bible and Its Interpreters" is rumored to have promised eternal salvation. Professor of History James Hankins from Historical Study B-19, "The Renaissance in Florence" quoting from Dante's Inferno, tells students the seventh circle of hell is reserved for those who drop his class. ACLU attorneys are called to investigate as Kugel finishes with the largest market share going into the weekend...
...Quite frankly, this case was probably one of the weaker clemency cases...There were no real claims of mental illness, no question of guilt. It was a triple murder. He had one argument dealing with post-traumatic stress from Vietnam, but really he had a snowball's chance in hell...
...only because it passes the no-maiming criterion but also because it--as Nash explains it--"tells a story." A tape of a fight between fraternity boys and locals at a football game fails because it's "nothing more than random violence. It has no redeeming value." In hell, apparently, there are 200 different words...