Word: helluva
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...different defenses we used helped us win the ball game," coach Bob Harrison said after the game. "But you have to credit Northeastern with one helluva game. They got an early lead and forced us to play catch-up ball," he said...
...clean campaign." The very fact of his candidacy, Evers said, shows how far blacks have come in Mississippi: "For me to be running for Governor in the state where my brother was killed and for none of us to get our heads bashed in-it's a helluva lot. We changed the whole political system of this state. It won't ever be the same again...
...longer lend economic and military aid and comfort to the "genocidal" regime in West Pakistan, a position the conference would endorse overwhelmingly. At the interview's end, Burke tried to thank the youth: "Thanks very much, and I wish you...luck." He turned to the side. "That's a helluva thing to say to someone who doesn't know where his family is," the reporter muttered...
Commitment to Balance. In this situation, Moscow's announcement of additional arms for Egypt infuriated the U.S. "This is a helluva time for them to do this," said one State Department official. Rogers sternly "deplored" the Soviet move "at this stage of sensitive negotiations" and warned: "We will have to consider, in view of this, and in line with President Nixon's commitment to maintain the balance of power in the area, the consequences, and make sure that the balance of power does not shift." In the Senate, meanwhile, 78 of 100 members signed a petition urging...
...America was happy. We had begun whistling in the dark a good bit earlier than that. Which means that if On the Town is to be revived it must be revived with all of its original complexities and simplicities intact. O-K, I'll grant you it's a helluva task, but then New York, New York, it's a helluva town...