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President Kennedy: There's bound to be a reprisal from the Soviet Union. Just going in and taking Berlin by force. Which leaves me only one alternative, which is to fire nuclear weapons, which is a hell of an alternative, and begin a nuclear exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMAGEDDON'S ECHOES | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

...think that is pretty good. I think that will work," Aaron S. Montgomery '00 said. "It sure scared the hell...

Author: By Tara L. Colon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cellucci Starts Anti-Drinking Crusade | 10/8/1997 | See Source »

...student left a "Heaven and Hell" party around 1 a.m. on Sunday morning, a dart board of unknown origin fell from a fifth-floor window and hit a Harvard student in the head as she stood outside of Eliot House's Centry...

Author: By Jason M. Goins, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Thrown Dart Board Injures Passing Student | 10/7/1997 | See Source »

...capacity for insult, denigration and blasphemy seems utterly boundless. University of Tennessee research associate professor Jonathan E. Lighter demonstrated this in 1994 with the first volume of his Historical Dictionary of American Slang (A through G). Volume II (Random House; 736 pages; $65)--beginning with H, a euphemism for hell, and ending 10,000 definitions later at the letter O with Ozzie, an Australian--once again reflects Americans' ingenious talent for verbal invention as well as Lighter's indefatigable scholarship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: KISKEEDEE? LOOK IT UP! | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

...having just driven 20 hours from Atlanta to Manhattan at the time of the interview. The band played a show at the Orpheum Theater on Sept. 22, which Cole described as "excellent-the crowd was really enthusiastic, and we love Boston. Jimbo blew a whole month's worth of 'hell money' in one night there...

Author: By Heidi J. Bruggink, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Swing Septet Takes Hold of Pop Spotlight | 10/3/1997 | See Source »

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