Word: hellishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...theme of miscues and botched chances haunted the Harvard men's soccer team like a hellish takeoff of This Is Your Season during the Crimson's 3-2 seesaw defeat to 10th-ranked Dartmouth here on Chase Field last Saturday...
...Bicker in the late 1950s, as Wolff describes it, was a positively hellish experience. "The institution of Bicker is too perversely odd for my fancy to have fabricated," Wolff writes in the author's note. Sophomores register themselves in "Preferentials," groups of students who want to join the same club. The Preferentials go everywhere together--to meals, to tour the various clubs--but for the most part just wait for the upper-class club members to visit them and ask trite questions meant to discriminate between the gentlemen and the well-not-our-kinds...
...road from men's coach at Central Florida and Clemson to women's coach at Harvard made for a hellish experience...
Though often hellish for riders, New York City's subways have long been a heaven for panhandlers, who can enjoy a captive clientele of hundreds of passengers when they board a train. (Some riders, after all, are not hardened against being dunned for donations.) Because these discomforting confrontations tend to drive down ridership while increasing panhandlership, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority last year decided to enforce rules that ban begging underground as well as in other public-transport facilities...
...credentials are, if anything, rather too impeccable: Spader's character, Michael, an analyst in an investment firm, is Faust at a computer terminal; Lowe's Alex, a sociopath of no fixed address, is Satan with a swell wardrobe and access to clubs where the action is not quite so hellish as director Hanson would like us to think...