Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...already ghastly" golf game. By Friday the 13th the Kansas River (called "the Kaw" by Clark and other natives) had broken all records, roared over levees into two city districts. Assistant City Editor Paul Miner woke Clark at 6 o'clock that morning, asked him to "get the hell down to the office as fast as possible." An hour later, Clark was back at work on the flood story...
...years, appealed for help. But Duff, with dogged consistency, insisted that he had never tolerated meddling when he was governor and he would not try it now. Duff men at Harrisburg wondered whether there really was much that Jim Duff could do. Said a G.O.P. politico sadly: "Jim Duff, hell, he's just a junior Senator from Pennsylvania down in Washington. He's off in deep left-field and he's got the sun in his eyes. One of these days the ball's going to get out of the infield...
...rifle were the two indispensable items of furniture. His rancher father and his mother were devout Baptists, and father fought his share of Indians. In 1890, when Joe was nine, his parents helped found a series of outdoor camp meetings which are still held in West Texas. Joe watched hell-raising Jeff Davis County become law-abiding to the point where the grand jury, eleven years running, could find nobody to indict...
...iron horses collided headon. Scrap iron hurtled against the wooden barricades which protected the five cameras grinding away from different angles. Farther off, 300 railroad and film people cheered. As any small boy could understand, there may be something richly satisfying in the spectacle of two monsters bashing hell out of each other...
...logic is bad, but it expresses the immemorial conviction of men who would rather be safe anywhere, even in hell, than be exposed to the unbearable danger of looking into their own consciences. Author Barker, Englishman and minor poet, has little skill in the novelist's trade, none at all in creating characters; yet sometimes his phrases light up dark corners of the human spirit...