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Word: hells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Subscribers who took the hook usually gave our phantom prohibitionist hell, then said they were sorry for her poor henpecked husband. Occasionally someone would write in to agree with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 16, 1950 | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

...neither). The issue now, trumpeted the committee, was censorship. One J. Robert Jones, a letter-to-the-editor writer, summed it up: "I am a citizen of New Mexico, a taxpayer and property owner," wrote Mr. Jones, "and I think that the work in question looks like hell. But principles are principles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW MEXICO: A Matter of Principle | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

Pageantry, hell, he thought, these track stars aren't so hot after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 10/14/1950 | See Source »

...Senator Paul Douglas, Chicago Attorney Frank J. McAdams and a man named Joe who did the driving and kept the sound equipment working. Loyal Fair Dealer Douglas, not up for election himself, was campaigning hell-for-leather for his colleague, Senator Scott Lucas. To all good Democrats, the carefully creased, weary-looking Lucas was more than just another candidate. As majority leader of the Senate, he was a symbol of Democratic power. Republican ex-Congressman Everett Dirksen, who was trying to unseat him, had a good chance of doing just that. Scott Lucas had to be saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Voices Over Illinois | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...grand jury on charges of bilking their neighbors, and the state's attorney began trying to untangle the knotted threads of the great Ford swindle. The beauty operator wept. "I've lived in terror the last two years," she complained. "My life has been a hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Great Ford Swindle | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

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