Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...congressional relations. Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, seeking a way to justify the Air Force cut to their constituents, were appalled by Wilson's failure to offer any coherent argument for his budget. "Charlie Wilson," said one Congressman last week, "will never make anything but a hell of a lousy politician...
...made so many commitments--down payments on contracts and such--that we can't call the thing off now. It's on, come hell or high water," O'Connor said. He also denied any knowledge of possible changes in the method of choosing future committees...
...just keeping track of this for the hell...
...Douglas McKay gave Idaho Power the green light to go ahead with its three dams. In a letter to the Federal Power Commission, which must still approve the project, McKay noted that the privately built dams would produce almost as much electricity and flood protection as Chapman's Hell's Canyon project. The first of the private dams could also be completed seven to eight years sooner. In any case, there was now little chance that Congress would vote funds for such a project. Said McKay: "We will not oppose any development by privately owned public utilities...
...jacket blurb, but at 27, after brief careers as a sailor, private tutor and circus hand, Hinde has put together an expert novel. His storytelling is done in meticulously understated style, but beneath its bland surface, Mr. Nicholas is relentless in its exploration of a quiet, homey little English hell...