Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Worlds Collide" does have its great moment, however; it comes when a preliminary planet whizzes by near the earth and raises general hell with the tides. Enormous glaciers crash into the sea, earthquakes rumble, and, in a particularly satisfying scene, New York City is destroyed and inundated by the Atlantic ocean. The actual collision between earth and the second planet is shown as a mild pink blip on the TV screen of an escaping rocket ship...
After dinner, Truman delivered one of his hell-giving political blasts. He dwelled at length on the Harding Administration, blaming its isolationism for heading the U.S. toward World War II. Then, in the heaviest tones of the evening, he made his most remarkable point. "I sincerely hope that the foreign policy of the United States will not become a partisan political issue in the campaign. But we can meet this issue if it comes. This is a warning: if the Republicans do make foreign policy an issue . . . it will be the best issue the Democratic Party has. We can stand...
Satisfied, Johnson put him on probation, but not without indicating that hell would probably have no fury like a judge whose favorite youth-saving plan blew up in his face. "The public," he said, "is going to want to know what happens to Kimbrell...
...they already know, e.g., that Israel is "the birthplace of our civilization," that Gandhi looked like "a holy man," that Will Rogers specialized in "nuggets of wisdom." Luckily, the bulk of Between Sittings is not about what Jo thought and did between sittings, at all. It is about the hell of a life he led cooping pawky big shots into a corner long enough to model them-and the fine time he had listening to them jabber away, once he had softened them...
...first consideration is why people drink. Of the 67 men to whom Pugh asked this question, 65--who admitted they drank--replied in the following manner: for the hell of it, to get away from it all, because they see others doing it, in college to get drunk, because they have nothing else to do, because of world tension and the collapse of all values, to get a girl, as a prelude to sex, to overcome fatigue, to relax, to be different, heats the hell out of me, for the thrill, and for the taste...