Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third-are without work. With the sugar cut and milled, 200,000 seasonally employed cane cutters and millworkers will join the 400,000 Cubans chronically unemployed and the 160,000 workers made jobless by the construction slowdown. Says a Havana businessman: "The country is going broke in a hell of a hurry." Said a sugar broker: "Cuba is being reduced from a first-rate nation with a sound peso to a third-rate nation...
...thermometers at varying depths, testing water for density and salinity. In 1940 he became director of Woods Hole, saw U.S. oceanography transformed into a Naval auxiliary. For some reason, neither the German nor the Japanese navies ever got in touch with their oceanographers, who were excellent. "This made a hell of a difference in World War II," says Iselin...
...Roman legions crushed the loose confederation of Etruscan city-states and razed their walls. Etruria's bizarre hobgoblin world of superstition, ritual and magic provided the folk mythology from which poets from Virgil to Dante evoked their images of Hades and Hell; its art was buried in underground tombs to await latter-day grave robbers...
...home in Beverly Hills, suffering from arthritis and heart disease. Her brothers had long since made their exits, John in 1942, Lionel in 1954. Still she remained the pleasantly abrupt commentator who once told an audience of Philadelphia clubwomen that they were moronic, who thought television was hell (although she had tried that, too). She remained an avid boxing and baseball fan ("I might have liked football, but I always had Saturday matinees and couldn't get to games"). And she kept up her reading; her home bulged with books. Friends came to call-veterans of the old days...
...with a portrait of Susan and her brother painted by a family friend, Diego Rivera, and other baubles to match. From her mother, Mexican Actress Lupita Tovar, she inherited liquid, tip-tilted eyes of striking beauty. As a Chinese girl on TV (Schlitz Playhouse), an Italian girl in To Hell and Back, a neurotic mulatto in Imitation of Life, she began her multicolored career as one of the most versatile young actresses in town. Her latest picture: Walt Disney's The Big Fisherman, in which she again plays an exotic part-a young Judean girl...