Word: helluva
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...helluva job," Watson said. "We're extremely pleased with his performance...
...there's no denying the great outdoors is making a comeback--a fact underscored by the sudden appearance of cover stories in no fewer than a helluva a lot of magazines boasting influential readerships and bearing titles like "The New Repudiation" and "The Atlantic's Once-a-Monthly...
...than any particular mechanism is for us to establish a pattern of behavior on which other nations will base their expectations. It is important for others to have a high level of expectation that the perpetrators of terrorist acts will be punished. The character of the punishment matters a helluva lot less than the certainty that they will be punished. That means establishing a pattern over a period of years. It means avoiding sending conflicting signals. It means not issuing threats and then backing off. If you make a threat and then don't deliver, that raises morale and whets...
...declamations would be rants. When Iacocca gets going, which is usual, he pauses only when he runs out of breath. He is in such a rush to say so many things that he cannot always be bothered to find the mot juste: if guys is his trademark noun, helluva is Iacocca's favorite modifier...
...space: she spent three hours outside her Soyuz capsule testing a welding device. Two of the Salyut 7 crew did a five-hour space walk to replace a faulty valve assembly on the main propulsion engine. Says one admiring NASA official of the complex repair chore: "It was one helluva job to do, but the Soviets...