Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...call "rabbit ears," which pricked and blushed at every hostile sound. "Why do they cheer me for hitting a homer," he asked, "and then boo me for grounding out the next time up? I'm still the same guy, ain't I? ... They can all go to hell. I'll never tip my cap to them." Baseball Immortal Eddie Collins, now Red Sox vice president, says with resigned melancholy, "If he'd tip his cap just once he could be elected mayor of Boston in five minutes. I don't think he'll ever...
...Innocent. The Short Cut retells an old existentialist moral tale. In it, every man is a hell unto himself, enslaved by uncontrollable events, victimized by his own exaggerated moral interpretations of them. After weeks of living in the bush, The Short Cut's hero drags himself back to camp only to. find that nobody has heard about his disease, nobody has reported the shooting of the native girl, and everybody, including himself, is booked for home...
...bullies Senators who need his approval for their pet projects. He badgered David Lilienthal because Lilienthal refused to load TVA with McKellar patronage, yelped that ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman ought to resign for the good of the country. A Senator longer than any of his colleagues (33 years), Kenneth McKellar, hell-raiser in committee and on the floor, has long been the meek and humble stooge of Tennessee's E. H. ("Boss") Crump...
...small Baptist church in Palatka, Fla., he was told that he could not continue the meeting unless he became a Baptist. But his education and upbringing were Calvinist, and his preaching still shows it. Last week he treated his predominantly middle-aged audiences to first-hand glimpses of Heaven, Hell and Judgment...
...signed up on the night he described Hell: "There will be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. I believe . . . that there is literal fire in Hell, but if there is not literal fire in Hell, then the Bible is talking about something far worse when it speaks of the flames of Hell. What ever it is going to be is so horrible that it cannot be expressed in the language...