Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week with a screeching of brakes (TIME, Oct. 2). Ex-Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes, whom the President had characterized, according to the book, as a man who ''failed miserably" in his job and "ran out" when the President needed help, had lost no time snapping back. "Hell," said Byrnes, "if he felt that way, why should he have wanted a miserable failure around at any time . . .? My letter of resignation [was tendered] eight months previous. So he says I ran out on him? Well, I'd call that damn slow running...
Within a second zone, ¼ mile wide, the destruction would be only a little less complete. In that area would be Times Square, Rockefeller Center, Hell's Kitchen, the Metropolitan Opera House; the Holland and Queens vehicular tunnels, the Williamsburg Bridge, the Pennsylvania and Grand Central stations. Many more buildings would be wrecked by the explosion, and gutted by fire...
...supply with water pumped from the island's flanking rivers. Policemen would make their way into the devastated area, directing squads of mechanics who would turn off gas mains, burn through tangled girders, tunnel into debris after the entombed. Health department squads would penetrate into the dust-thick hell, monitoring radioactivity. Rescue squads and equipment would be ordered to the scene from undamaged, outlying communities...
Although the Weavers had not lost their "singing for the hell of it" quality, they looked back a little wistfully at the not-so-old Greenwich Village days. "It's not so much fun now," said Leader Seeger. "Then we could improvise, sing what we felt like singing. Now we're so professional we have to rehearse, arrange, set keys and all that stuff...
...banjo and recorder, and Fred's guitar, made just the right blend. Sponsored by Red-tinged People's Songs, they got enthusiastic but unremunerative backing from fellow travelers who have long claimed folk songs as their particular province. Mostly, however, they kept up their singing "for the hell...