Word: helle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President peered into the next room, explained cheerily: "I just wanted to see that everybody is comfortable. Are you all fixed up? If not, I'll give them the devil." Someone wisecracked: "Give 'em hell." Said Harry Truman: "I'm through giving them hell. Now we'll work together...
There seemed little doubt that the 27th had suffered from lack of battle training and sloppy leadership, that it was equipped neither by discipline nor inclination for the Marines' hell-for-leather tactics. But Howlin' Mad's running battle with the Army served little present purpose. The whole story of the Army on Saipan seemed destined to take its place with such other military causes célèbres as the conduct of the Dardanelles campaign in World War I and the reason Longstreet was late in attacking Little Round...
...step ahead." The pro-government papers printed flowery poems of praise, in which every pronoun referring to Estimé was capitalized. To at least one Haitian, that was carrying things too far. Snorted waggish Senator Alphonse Henríquez: "Another Christophe! Another Toussaint L'Ouverture! Another Jesus Christ! . . . Hell! A motor in a pair...
Guys that had never cheered for anything in their lives suddenly found themselves down on the field howling like madmen and charging everything that wore blue. It was the first victory since 1941. It was a fine clean win and what the hell...
...noisiest and naughiest kids in the territory. After the game the breath of liquor will hang over the Square like a smog; blond hair and strapless backs will glitter through the night; and Cambridge, seat of culture, will be undistinguishable from any city where the American Legion is raising hell...