Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief Ike-booster. Had the talk been about Ike? Dewey admitted freely that it had. "We are all for him," said Dewey. What if Ike was too busy to run? "We don't contemplate such possibilities," said Dewey firmly. Jim Duff added a vigorous agreement: "What the hell do you think I'm doing? Wasting my time...
When Colonel Blimp opened one of his favorite papers one day last week-the Tory Evening Standard-he got an eye-bugging jolt. Gad, sir, the Standard seemed to have an odd new contributor: hell-raising Laborite Aneurin Bevan, who once called the Conservative press "the most prostituted in the world...
...entered the war in 1917, the Germans threatened to delay Gerard's departure until he reaffirmed a 1799 treaty which the Germans had rewritten in their own favor. Gerard said he had no authority to sign the treaty, "and even if I had, I would stay here until hell freezes over before I would put my name to such a paper." The Germans gave in. Back in the U.S., he served as Democratic party treasurer (1918-1932) and convention delegate. His third volume of memoirs-My First Eighty-Three Years in America-was published in February...
Occasionally, a practical joker gave the number to an unsuspecting friend. It made no difference to Dad Hall, or to the volunteer assistants who came to help him. Even the drunks listened. "A bar is a bar to heaven and a gate to hell," Hall would tell them, "and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise." Homeless down & outers came to his mission for help; a light burned in the window all night. And the telephone kept ringing...
...Goods. The gamble paid off. Solar developed heat-resistant parts for hell-hot jet engines, promptly began cashing in on the jet boom. Two months ago, Solar's research team came out with the "Solaramic process" for coating stainless steel with a paintlike ceramic, enabling steel to stand extreme heat without corroding and without using such scarce metals as nickel and cobalt...