Word: hellishly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ACADEMIC CALENDAR is undoubtedly one of Harvard's most unappealing aspects. Not only do we get a scanty two weeks for winter recess, but we have to come back and endure an excruciating month-long combination of reading period and finals. Our spring finals month is just as hellish as the winter one, but at least it's followed by a vacation. (I guess we're lucky that they give us our finals before we leave home for the summer--they could conceivably administer our exams upon our return the following September...
Nuclear power. The words conjure first the hellish explosion at Chernobyl that spewed a radioactive cloud across the Ukraine and Europe five years ago this week, poisoning crops, spawning bizarre mutant livestock, killing dozens of people and exposing millions more to dangerous fallout. Then the words summon up Three Mile Island (shown here) and the threat of a meltdown that spread panic across Pennsylvania's rolling countryside seven years earlier. From these grew the alarming television programs, the doomsday books, the terrifying movies, even the jokes (What's served on rice and glows in the dark? Chicken Kiev). Could...
...people I know are having a hellish time," says David L. McMahon '94. "There are too many academic concerns to worry about housing right now. Perhaps if housing were a week earlier, things would be easier...
NAPALM. Bombs containing this gooey gel, made from fatty acids mixed with gasoline, produce a hellish inferno when ignited, burning up everything in the target area or splattering it with the searing, sticky jelly. The naked, screaming girl in Nick Ut's famous photo from the Vietnam War was a napalm victim. British officials say that in light of its infamous reputation the allies do not intend to use it against Saddam's troops. But napalm, which is most effective against massed troops out in the open, is among allied weapons stockpiled in the gulf, and U.S. officials...
...Hell is paved with good intentions. Family Secrets has the best of intentions. A sincere, student-written show, the play obviously required a lot of time and effort. And proceeds go to the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) Association. But well-meaning efforts cannot salvage a hellish production...