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Word: hells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talk legislative programs) and the Cabinet nominees. When Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden stepped out of the elevator to keep a lunch date with Ike, he was greeted by a glare of flash bulbs and a roar from a photographer (to a slow-footed reporter): "Get the hell out of the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENT-ELECT: Setting the Course | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

...Orleans police last week rounded up the latest in teen-age gangs: a band of "Storm Troopers" who for weeks had annoyed the upper-bracket suburb of Metairie by smashing street lights, throwing rocks through train windows, and general hell-raising. They carried mimeographed membership cards, in English and crude German, adorned with swastikas and pictures of Adolf Hitler. In their headquarters, an abandoned store, police found 4,000 rounds of 22-caliber ammunition, some shotgun shells, 36 knives, a rifle and two air rifles. The group's Führer was 15. Said he: "I have information that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Troopers in Louisiana | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

...Dodd system contradicts many of the theories of the hell-for-leather big-time college coaches. And though Tech does its best to lure good players, Dodd must constantly cope with the hard fact that the tough engineering school has no snap courses like those found in some of the football foundries. How does Dodd consistently stay on top of the collegiate heap? The former All-American quarterback for Tennessee (1930) has a twinkle in his grey eyes when he answers that one: "Don't forget, we get the smarter boys—and that helps." It also helps that Dodd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football for Fun | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

...Ladd) and his famous knife. According to this Technicolored biography, the Bowie knife-i.e., the iron mistress-was forged out of steel into which was fused the fragment of a meteor ("For better or worse, the knife has a bit of heaven in it-or a bit of hell," says one of the characters). So miraculously keen and deadly is this weapon that with it Bowie can kill off any number of his enemies-when he is not demolishing them, that is, with pistols, sword or fists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 24, 1952 | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

...even feel it. Another day he smelled burning flesh, saw his own toes pressed against a flatiron, yet felt no pain. When the doctors cleared up the mystery, Govind had to swap his tradesman's heaven-on-earth for what he was sure would be leper's hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Untouchables | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

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