Word: hell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admiral of the Fleet is a daring, dynamic commander. Tall, hawk-browed Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound, 62, commanded the Colossus at Jutland. Six years ago, calling (like Winston Churchill) for Britain to rebuild her fleet, he predicted just what he had on his hands last week: "a hell of a fight...
...infiltration maneuvers, to penetrate between gaps in the West Wall which, unlike the Maginot Line, is rather a series of sunken forts with tank traps and interlocking underground tunnels, than a continuous defense bastion. First "contact" (man to man) fighting was known to be on German soil, in the hell-raked strip between the two Lines. For an invasion of Germany, France is far better off now than in 1914 for she holds Alsace-Lorraine with its high escarpments jutting east toward Germany above Strasbourg...
...hell with King and Country!" "Well, are you fighting for Democracy?" "I don't give a damn for Democracy!" "What are you fighting for?" "To beat that bloody Hitler...
...past eight months.* It all started last year when to Rector Colony's office under the rumbling Frankford Street elevated went a delegation of 55 unemployed hosiery workers to ask him for jobs. Lithuanian-born David Colony-who had soldiered at 16 in Allenby's hell-for-leather army in Palestine, who had muttered against church pomposity and mustiness, who had been unhappy as curate of Philadelphia's swank Church of the Good Shepherd-was ready to deal with the problems of St. Luke's unemployed parishioners. He told them to go into business for themselves...
...Author. A semi-legendary character, Kenneth Fearing has figured in far more novels than he has written. (The Hospital is his first.) In Albert Halper's Union Square he figures as the drunken poet. But, "Hell," declares Fearing, "I've been a character in some good novels"-meaning W. L. River's The Death of a Young Man, Margery Latimer's This Is My Body...