Word: hellings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...degree of public cooperation - even the White House used ZIP codes on its Christmas cards - the Post Office managed to get by with only routine delays in most places. Much worse than a couple of weeks of slower deliveries, however, is the very real danger of having a "holiday hell" all year long. The Johnson Administration fears that the ever-growing mail load imposed on an archaic postal system could seriously erode year-round service in a few years unless drastic reforms are made...
There was no guarantee that all parties would adhere to the pact. Despite Communist objections, the democratic leftists announced that in some elections they might throw their support behind candidates of Jean Lecanuet's Progressive Catholic Party. (Cracked Socialist Mollet: "Hell does not begin just to the right of the Radical Party.") The Socialist vice president of the National Assembly, Jean Montalat, went even one step further. Pact or no pact, he warned stoutly, he would refuse to bow out to a Communist if he faced a run-off election...
...surgeons, even more than heart surgeons, seem to have an emotional advantage in this type, of fundraising. Says Dr. Callahan: "A fellow can go to a doctor with a bellyache, get better, and say to himself, 'Hell, I might have gotten well anyway.' But with the eyes, you can't say that. If you have cataracts, you know that unless they're removed, you won't get well...
...Hell-Bent Dilemmas. Amid the rubble of World War II, the Weekly began as one of countless Jewish bulletins providing information on people in refugee camps. As the Jews left Germany, the refugee sheets disappeared-except for one which was taken over by Marx, a German-Jewish journalist who had spent the war in England and had now returned. A combat veteran of World War I and an ardent German nationalist, Marx had a clear goal in mind. "From the first," he said, "I wanted to re-ignite Jewish life in Germany...
Says Harrison, in what must pass for overbrimming enthusiasm: "One thousand performances over three years is three thousand hours: four months and five days of 24 hours a day-I had my secretary figure it out one day. That is quite a hell of a long time to have vis-à-vis with somebody. Through summers hot, winters cold, that sort of thing. Julie was always, always-a very boring old word-a good trouper. She plowed on through thick and thin. Highly professional from the word go." Characteristically, Julie says of it all: "You know, I never got that...