Word: helluva
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Indeed, the action is here. The new trends-both social and business-are here. Why? It is because a helluva lot of people are hard at work, creating and hustling into motion a better way of life. The lunatic elements make for colorful copy, but they contribute damned little to the dynamics that make this state tick...
...manner of Janis Paige in the old Broadway smash, Pajama Game, U.S. bankers are lamenting the discovery that a 71% interest rate "doesn't mean a helluva lot." Pinched for lendable funds by Washington's fight against inflation, the nation's major banks last week raised the cost of borrowing to that level-the fourth rise in little more than three months. The prime rate, the interest that banks charge their best corporate customers, went up a full i% from the 7% rate set only last January. Although the new rate was a historic peak, neither businessmen...
...correspondent covering the Vatican, is even more awkward among the red hats than he was as a journalist with The Green Berets. Before the Pope straightens out her life Janssen's wife (Barbara Jefford) accuses him of spending the night with a girl friend. "You really pick a helluva time to bring that up," he says. "I'm on the air in 47 minutes...
After a few more minutes of generalized bitching, he noticed that a small crowd had gathered to watch the action. He looked like a student, and it was a helluva lot of fun watching one of them smart-ass Harvards get screwed...
...playing such standards as Lonely Is the Name and a new song, Extra Innings, that he says has "a dirty beat." There is an eight-week nightclub tour in the offing. There are personal promotions for Hammond's new $6,000 X-77 organ, which Denny says "is a helluva lot better than the old B-3." He ought to know; he owns one of each. "Music has always been the No. 1 thing in my life," he typically exaggerates. "Baseball is a means to an end. I want to ultimately be a professional musician...