Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tacho used to test his foes' veracity with a magneto-powered shocking device, la maqui-nita (the little machine), wired to the victim's testicles. "Hell," Tacho once said, "the damned thing isn't so bad. I've tried it myself-on my hand...
...midst of his campaigning against Republican President Eisenhower, Democratic ex-President Harry S. Truman briefly switched from his give-'em-hell stance to his elder-statesman pose, announced: "The past President should be helpful to those who succeed...
...Mortal sin condemns the unshriven sinner to hell, venial sin "merits only temporal punishment" and, unless expiated on earth, is paid for only by the pains of purgatory...
Theology, too, can be as divisive in the fourth grade as in the 4th century. Youngsters often come to blows and tears over the location of Heaven or the existence of Hell. "Billy says if you dig far enough you will find the Devil. Mama, is it true that there is a Devil...
...They spend a large part of the time running against me," Truman said at MIT, "But I'm not a candidate." Limitation number one--Truman can attack, but he cannot give them hell, or he would become an issue, and a vulnerable one at that...