Word: hellcats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vice President Nixon is truly the old hellcat when he says [Oct. 13]: "The only way we could get the crooks out of the Truman Administration was to put them in jail." What are Goldfine and Adams doing running around loose...
...There is Tom's cousin George, a would-be painter turned psychoanalyst, and George's wife, whose mind is an ambush out of which Freud continually jumps ("Can't the Cross be a phallic symbol?"). All the "malefactors" are somewhat mystified by one of their hellcat playmates from the old Paris days, who has dropped their cultish enthusiasms, become a Roman Catholic, and is running a kind of cooperative flophouse hostel for Bowery bums. Tom pooh-poohs this project and is much more susceptible to a cocktail houri and budding lady poet named Cynthia Vail, who shows...
...times, the Navy is so impressed that it has already given Grumman a $40 million experimental and production contract for an estimated 40 to 50 planes. The company cannot say when the first production model will roll off the lines. But Grumman, which had its famed World War II Hellcat in Navy squadrons before the roof was even on its Bethpage, L.I. plant, managed to turn out the Tiger prototype in just 15 months, has designed it specifically for fast, easy production...
...overtaken outposts, who have escaped over jungle trails or by floating down chutelike rapids on improvised rafts. Behind them come five Viet Minh columns, the nearest now within sight of us. They have traveled fast, but they have not had an easy passage. On the way in, we saw Hellcat and Bearcat fighters filling the tight green valleys with the orange-red bursts and the soot-black smoke of napalm. Now the sound of bursting bombs comes like slow thunder from the distant valleys...
Like Sterling. In developing a new weapon tailored for an exacting Navy job, Grumman once more carried out its 23-year-old mission as the chief supplier of Navy planes. During World War II it turned out 17,000 planes, including Hellcat and Wildcat fighters, the backbone of the Navy's carrier squadrons. To the Navy, said the late Vice Admiral John C. McCain, the name Grumman was like "sterling" on silver...