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Word: hells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later all hell broke loose in the area between Santos Dumont Airport and the Air Ministry. (Our office building stands in majestic isolation between the two.) José and Paulo were in the office when machine guns began rattling and bullets started thudding into the walls. Paulo and José rushed out the back door of the building, stumbled over the body of a boy who had just been killed. They saw a police patrol headed for the building and quietly slipped away. It was no time to get mixed up with the police. Minutes later the building was sealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 13, 1954 | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

...seven choruses, six chamber orchestras' and quartets, one ballet, one opera and five dramatic companies. First week's highlight was the Sadler's Wells Ballet production of Firebird, starring brilliant Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, who in the title role seemed as quick as an imp out ot hell, as fluttery as a butterfly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Toes Have It | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

...from a flashy, holler-and-hell-raising club, the Indians have been concentrating on the happy habit of hitting the long ball at the right time. "We get 'em when we need 'em," says General Manager Hank Greenberg. "We're a worrisome ball club to the opposition." Not only have the Indians been worrying their closest competitors ; they have been regularly knocking over the league's Humpty Dumpties. As the week began, after a three-game series with the unsinging Orioles of Balti more, they were 5½ games in front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Into the Stretch | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

Publisher Beebe and Editor Charles Clegg favor unrestricted gambling, frequent sessions with "the oracle of Martini," and the hell with progress. And instead of "printed exhortations to THINK . . . the management of the Enterprise [strews] the editorial and business offices with cards advising the staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vintage West | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

Pilgrim's Progress. In Edinburgh, after Business Manager Ernest F. Munro, 37, was convicted of embezzling $16,800 from the Scottish National Bible Society, his lawyer commented: "It was just the old story of the road to hell being the easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 23, 1954 | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

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