Local party leaders did not. As one said: "I do not want him raising hell in my state any longer."

VOA: special.2010.08.05

How can I help you?" That is Karen Haigh,an employee of a store called Hell in a Handbasket.

VOA: special.2010.12.20

They are shown falling or being dragged by ugly creatures into hell where they are tortured forever.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

A Confederate soldier told his friend, "Them Yankees are just marching up and being shot to hell."

VOA: special.2009.08.27

He rode that mountain lion all the way to the camp of the Hell's Gate Gang.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

In eighteen sixty-eight, the American writer James Parton called it "hell with the lid off."

VOA: special.2009.07.13

"Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living," she would say.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

But he said this about Hell: "I have made a deal with the devil.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

Hell had indeed frozen over -- Ms.Haigh said it was minus-seven Celsius.

VOA: special.2010.12.20

Taylor's answer was short: "Tell Santa Ana to go to hell."

VOA: special.2009.02.26

But one storyteller calls it the "Hell's Gate Gang."

VOA: special.2009.11.28

Candles and t-shirts from Hell are always popular.

VOA: special.2010.12.20

A writer once called it hell.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

And I knowed I could pray now. But I didn't do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking -- thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell.

VOA: special.2010.03.21