Word: heck
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Housekeeping. In Seeley Lake, Mont., the L. A. Otters watched a grouse fly into the house through a closed window, fly out through another. In Centerville, Iowa, a loaded coal truck entered the house of Mrs. Blanche Heck, pushed her, abed, through the wall into the next room, left her against a hot stove, uninjured. In Hammonton, N.J., a train wrecked a truck driven by Jules Press, who flew into the air accompanied by four blankets, on which he landed, slightly bruised...
...look. Soon I found two of the circulars, and brought them down to my room-one of them later disappeared-I think the chambermaid swiped one! As the firing continued, I went up again just as the antiaircraft in the port opened up. The French guns made a heck of a racket and the sky was full of black bursts. There was the continual rattle of machine-gun fire. At first I couldn't make out what they were blazing at. Then I saw a plane suddenly take what I thought was a nose dive, when it suddenly started...
Occasionally the old man shook his head slightly, as if to say, "What the heck, I can't be that good." Everybody expected him to break down emotionally when he was called upon for a speech. But George Norris surprised them. His eyes were a little watery but his voice was stout...
Trained to the quarterdeck, he likes only to get jobs done; to heck with people who pause to ponder, fret or quibble. But -as one of his fellow commissioners pointed out last week-proper organization and supervision of work also has its part to play in cutting loafing and that is a management problem...
...plain-monickered Manhattan interior decorator named Dan Cooper. Affable, barrel-chested Designer Cooper spent years buying and selling Tudor chairs and Louis XIV sofas. Then he decided that what the restless U.S. needed, to beat the high cost of moving vans, was capsule furniture. His credo: "What the heck do we need in the way of furniture? We need a place to sit, to sleep, to put our personal possessions into or on top of, to eat, to write and play games." Trade-named Pakto, the Cooper capsules are manufactured by North Carolina's Drexel Furniture...