Word: hellishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dependency on jelly doughtnuts is almost comical, with Kubrick showing Pyle absurdly running at the end of the platoon with his pants at his ankles, sucking his thumb. The transformation of Pyle from chubby mama's boy to bloodthirsty marine is an incredulous feat, serving to demonstrate how a hellish eight-week boot camp stay can turn even the meekest of men into "jolly green giants with rifles...
...have been working straight through the night, and are in an adrenaline and caffeine induced daze. Despite your hellish night, Your Mac remains happy. Your Mac is always happy. It always stares at you as if has just won the lottery. You hate this, but you dare not anger it. Only one more sentence...you are so close...so very close...
...present OAU count of more than 400 million to close to 2 billion by the year 2025, Africa faces a worsening nightmare. Almost a quarter of a century after most colonial powers lowered their flags for the last time in Africa, dreams of full independence have given way to hellish economic troubles...
While Soviet pronouncements sought to minimize the extent of the damage, information gathered from satellite photos suggested a hellish scene at the accident site. All evidence pointed to a nuclear reactor fire burning out of control in the gentle, rolling Ukrainian countryside and steadily releasing radiation into the air. That makes the catastrophe unimaginably worse than the 1979 partial meltdown at Three Mile Island, where a containment building kept most radioactive material from escaping out of the plant. The Chernobyl unit, by contrast, lacked such a protective structure...
...final years were hellish punishment for earlier indulgences. "I do not like reading my old poems," he wrote one admirer, "because I am not working on new poems." Yet reading his old poems before bedazzled crowds was what he was paid handsomely to do. His letters supply no evidence that he seriously contemplated suicide. But they portray, powerfully, a man trapping himself in a quandary from which there seemed to be no earthly escape. His poetry survives. The impractical young dreamer from Wales may have been wrong about almost everything but his immortality...