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Word: hells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Black phase she became coquettish and informal to the point of recklessness. Moreover, Eve in the third person. Sample quote: "When Black knew Eve White, and spoke of her I go out and get a little polluted, she wakes up with the hangover and timidly wonders what in hell's made her so damned sick." Jane suddenly appeared during a psychiatric interview. She knows what both Eves can do, and shows promise of doing better in life than either of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Order in Disorder? | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...comeback road when brother Benson Ford joined him at the Rouge plant in 1947-Billy Ford joined his brothers three years later. Henry helped teach them their jobs and, like an elder brother, bore down to see that they did them-and was frequently told to "go to hell" for his pains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Rouge & the Black | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...Northwest's turbulent Snake River is one of the last great U.S. river valleys still unexploited for hydroelectric power. For 125 miles along the Idaho-Oregon boundary line, the Snake tumbles through an almost inaccessible, rocky gorge called Hell's Canyon (see map), where it drops almost twelve feet in every mile. For control of this vast hydroelectric potential, public and private power interests in the power-short Northwest have been fighting for almost five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Decision in Hell's Canyon | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...harness the Snake, the Idaho Power Co. proposed spending $133 million in private funds to build three hydroelectric dams at Oxbow, Brownlee and Hell's Canyon, with a combined generating capacity of 783,000 kilowatts. But under the Fair Deal's Secretary Oscar Chapman, the Interior Department planned a much more ambitious public power program for the Snake. Chapman wanted to build a $559,791,000 multi-purpose dam that would back up the waters of the Snake River into a lake 93 miles long and flood Idaho Power's dam sites. The entire cost for power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Decision in Hell's Canyon | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...underdog role. Secondly, he has learned to believe in the right to protest. People like myself, always protesting against injustice, wouldn't last ten seconds in Russia. Also, no single group in this country believes more strongly in God and the hereafter. The Negro doesn't want to catch hell on this side of the River Styx and on the other side too." A Negro lawyer put it this way: "It's bad enough to be black without being Red too." The Negro is still deeply religious, although American churches have been slow in fighting discrimination before the altar. Says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The U. S. Negro, 1953 | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

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