Word: hell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There are many scenes that rend my heart. . . . Many of those leaving the village are carrying with them as much of their belongings as they can carry despite the danger. It is a true hell of heat and explosions. I think an estimate of 2,000 killed is too many; 1,000 would be more accurate. ... I never want to go through this again...
...Gran Chaco is rated a "green hell" by romantic Author-Explorer Julian Duguid. Actually it is a great variegated basin extending from northern Argentina to eastern Bolivia. The disputed section is a liver-shaped area bounded by the Paraguay and Pilcomayo Rivers. At the Paraguayan edge it is grassy and open, the soil sandy and dry. Farther west the jungle swamps and lagoons begin, follow the sluggish, unnavigable Pilcomayo to the south, dot the drowned lands to the north. Still farther west, verging into Bolivia's Andean foothills, the land changes again to open woodland, broken by fertile plains...
...Tribune, later as managing editor of Hearst's Herald & Examiner during the most rough-&-tumble era of Chicago journalism, Walter Howey was a profane romanticist, ruthless but not cruel, unscrupulous but endowed with a private code of ethics. He was the sort of newsman who managed to have hell break loose right under his feet, expected similar miracles from his underlings, rewarded them generously. Undersized, unprepossessing, he was afraid of nothing...
...over the head with a fire extinguisher when he got out of hand during the flight. Drink had by that time made him a "physical wreck," according to no less an authority than Anthony H. G. ("Tony") Fokker. Acosta's reply was that "Tony Fokker can go to hell...
...Frenchman in every 20 holds some sort of Government job. Deputies are elected for four years, can throw out any cabinet at will and neither hell nor high water can budge them. The emergency government of kindly old Gaston Doumergue tried valiantly to pare Government expenditures and failed (TIME, Nov. 19). Knowing what their country was up against, shrewd French investors sent a thin trickle of capital abroad. Then week after week as the condition of French business, the size of the probable deficit, became more & more apparent, the gold flow grew. Last week it was a torrent...