Word: hellishly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Doom's charm wasn't its almost non-existent plot line, which involved space marines--or something. The attraction was hunt-and-be-hunted action that put the player behind a shotgun barrel (or a chain saw or a nail gun) in a hellish 3-D world of demons and fireball-spitting ogres...
Rescuers were greeted by a hellish silence: no cries, no screams, very little movement at all amid a chaos of scattered shoes, clothing, blood and painfully small bodies. "I just cannot get the images out of my head," said headmaster Taylor...
...Mason-Dixon line exhibited moral and intellectual qualities that were rather bestial. This statement neither condemns all Southern whites nor excuses the North's racism. For most of the 20th century, almost all white Americans have held warped and loathsome racial views. But the South created a particularly hellish, suffocating environment for black Americans...
Last year I took a freshman seminar on the rise of the Asia-Pacific Rim, so I already fully tasted what it is like to be defending a country that is commonly regarded as possessing a hellish human rights record. It seems very likely that I will have to continue fighting against popular views in sections and papers this term...
...always enjoy the social grind that might take her from the coffee held in honor of the fashion show held by the officers' wives, to the Red Cross lunch meeting, to the reception for the wife of the Trinidadian Security Minister. Alma leaves friends in stitches by describing hellish dinner parties at which Colin always seems to be sharing a private joke with Princess Diana across the table while Alma has to shout conversation into the ear of an octogenarian. "It's not easy being the tail on Colin's kite," says someone who has seen Alma in action...