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Word: hells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trial?" growled the taxidriver to six burly friends on leaving the building, "they should be tried in a cellar. Hell, they should hang...

Author: By David C. D. rogirs, | Title: "Hang' em all..." | 3/19/1952 | See Source »

...business philosophy. "Capital Transit," he said, is not "a philanthropic organization whose trustees have dedicated its income to the public service," it is in business to make money. Most public-utility men, said Broadwater last week, are "scared somebody will accuse them of making a dollar. What in the hell goes on here in America? That's what we're here for, to make money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: How to Make a Buck | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

Reading the story left a bitter taste in my mouth. Just who the hell do the American people think they are? The excuses they manage to think up to keep the so-called foreigners from living in the same block with them are pretty weak in this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 10, 1952 | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...sure the course was swell. A ski tip caught one of the flag-decked course markers. She spun around, tumbled on her side. Then, to the cheers of the crowd, she bounced up, took five quick climbing steps to make sure she was through the "gate," and set off hell-for-leather for the finish. The spill had cost her at least three precious seconds, but when the first heat results were compiled, Andy was in fourth place. Dave, his brows puckered with worry, left Andy alone: "She knows she's behind, and she knows how to fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Andy Again | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

When Hollywood began to worry about the Communists and fellow travelers in its midst, John Wayne was drafted to head an organization known as the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. "Hell," says one friend, "Duke didn't know anything about the menace of Communism. All he knew was that some of his friends were against them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Wages of Virtue | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

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