Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election, Sewell voted Labor. This year he will vote Conservative for the first time. "Labor's greatest failure," says Sewell vehemently, "is that it has not made ordinary working people realize that unless we first tighten our belts and then get down to the business of producing hell-for-leather, this country will go bankrupt and there will be millions out of work...
...protest this new proposal as a lover of horse operas ... If the committee puts its [plan] over, who is going to wing the stagedriver with an arrow and who is going to burn the wagon-train? ... I want that Apache in a Sioux warbonnet to be a hound from hell ... I want the cussed redskins to crawl toward the waterhole in their proper persons as we have come to love them...
...Korn-felder, the doctor who took care of the sick as if he were still visiting patients in a provincial town. These prisoners were good people, talented people, and in a moment of anguish Kudriavtsev silently asked: "My God, why do I have to lead these damned souls to Hell?" But it never occurred to him that the order he personified was evil...
...rough, hulking brute of a man is married to a woman who believes it her duty to keep him happy and prosperous. He is impetuous, likes to do things for himself, and whenever she gets in his way, he knocks hell out of her. After three scenes of abuse she frees herself from him. "I'm an old beat-up woman," she says. "Physically I can never love anyone else." But mentally she is free...
Died. Carroll ("Cal") Shilling, sixtyish, hell-for-leather No. 1 jockey of his day (969 winners in 3,838 races), rider of victorious Worth in the 1912 Kentucky Derby; in Elmont, N.Y. Suspended since 1912 for rough riding, Shilling took to the bottle, was found dead under a horse van near the Belmont Park track with 99? in his pocket...