Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the greatest single reason for the new grimness here was that air and ground crews knew there now was a good chance that not all the planes would return. "We've got a hell of a lot more excitement than we 'need these days," said a veteran of 238 Viet Nam missions. In fact, the chances of being shot down over the North were slightly greater than was the case in the B-17 and B-24 days of World War II. Then the loss rate was one to 64; last week it was closer...
...Congress predictably did nothing, and Harry Truman, without major money or major support, set out on a whistle-stop campaign across the country. He lambasted Congress for the higher cost of living, for blocking low-rent housing, for failing to vote grain-storage bins. "Give 'em hell, Harry!" the crowds cried. The Democratic left had deserted to the third-party candidate, Henry Wallace, the South to Strom Thurmond's States' Rights party. Republican Candidate Thomas E. Dewey was calm, self-confident, and spent much of his time discussing his future Cabinet. Not until midmorning...
...White House calling. It was an offer from the President. If Senator Truman would withdraw from the race, he could have a seat on the Interstate Commerce Commission, a life appointment at a salary that was a lot more than Senators were paid. Tell them to go to hell,' Dad said. 'For my own self-respect, if nothing else, I must...
...There was a click and the phone was dead. My father got up, walked back and forth for a moment, and then said, 'Well, if that is the situation, I'll have to say yes. But why the hell didn't he tell me in the first place...
...stock has jumped from $22 to $71, and his family holdings have increased to $17 million. Not that he needs the gain. In all, Knudsen has a personal net worth estimated at well over $30 million. Why did Bunkie Knudsen, now 60, bother to take the White job? "Hell," he says, "I was too young to retire...