Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco, where the programs were being printed, complained about what they called obscenity. What was worse, as the ladies-and then G.O.P. officials-discovered to their horror, was that Rodin had titled his work The Three Shades, and had done it for a project called The Gate of Hell. Rodin had also conceived a legend for the statue, taken from Dante: "Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here...
...they've been kicked." Chairman Mills, noting that the cover was selected by Art Director Leo Mannheimer under the supervision of Public Relations Man Bruce Ellis, added: "These three guys in the statue were supposed to be agreeing on something, but I don't know what the hell they were agreeing on, and I don't think Ellis and Mannheimer knew either...
...kidnaper (with no apparent success), ran detailed descriptions of the missing child. But the damage had already been done. Interviewed by three reporters, Peter's sobbing mother cried out: "I could cut all your throats." Fumed Chief of Detectives Stuyvesant Pinnell: "We would have got a hell of a lot further if there had been no interference from the press...
...Learned, by an action of the House Interior Committee, that the Democrats are hell-bent on using Hell's Canyon to dramatize charges of an Administration natural-resources "giveaway" in the fall campaigns. The committee, following a similar move by its Senate sister, voted 15-13 to clear for House action a bill to build a $600 million federal high dam in Hell's Canyon on the Snake River between Idaho and Oregon. The Idaho Power Co., which the Federal Power Commission licensed last August to build three small dams in the area for an estimated $250 million...
...happening to other competitors, and canvas was popping on most boats. Finisterre's No. 2 Genoa blew out, but the crew replaced it and bore down while bigger yachts were reefing cautiously. Said Mitchell proudly: "After the big squall, we stayed on the port tack and just drove hell out of her . . . Between noon Monday and noon Tuesday we exceeded 200 miles while boats twice our size did only 250. We were averaging eight knots...