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Word: hells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bill to establish the "DeVoto Wildlife Sanctuary" on Hell's Half Acre, Cambridge's only remaining piece of open natural land, was filed in the Legislature last week...

Author: By Blaise G. A. pasztory, | Title: City Council Refuses to Endorse Proposed Sanctuary on Charles | 12/10/1957 | See Source »

...years, shy little Sir Ernest Oppenheimer left aides breathless as he raced down into South Africa's mines or whisked surefootedly around the crags of high finance. "There's a special place in hell," he said impatiently, "for mining men who don't work with the deposits the good Lord has given them." Last week, a few minutes after joking with his son Harry, his doctor and his private secretary, Sir Ernest slumped over at the breakfast table with a heart attack. At 77, the "king of diamonds" was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Diamond King | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

...year newspaper veteran whose father and grandfather were peace officers in Arizona territory, Reddick normally has no use for heroics. Why did he disarm the wife slayer? "Well," he explained, "I began to think, hell, when a man fires a gun into your face and it doesn't go off, it's just not your time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Waterfront Reporter | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...Hell no, to get drunk," Thresky replied. They set a date, and Thresky spent the interval touring New England Thresky spent the interval touring New and attending the more important football games, including all three Harvard-Princeton-Yale contests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lo, the Ubiquitous Ibis! | 11/26/1957 | See Source »

...humming of a sea shell, Author Kerr listens for gags in the clatter of a typewriter. She has brought high spirits to her varied roles of playwright (King of Hearts), free-lance writer, TV guest, wife (of New York Herald Tribune Drama Critic Walter Kerr). Laboring in the literary hell's kitchen of humor, Author Kerr, 33, knows that one cannot make a comic omelet without laying a few eggs. She lays a few in Daisies, but mostly she cooks with laughing gas. On the menu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wry Crisp | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

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