Word: helle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marine Colonel Robert Debs Heinl Jr. impatiently waved his heavy swagger stick one day last week as Haitian troops dashed across a drill field in Port-au-Prince and hit the dirt in platoon combat formation. "That looked like hell," grumped Heinl, "but when we can't find any mistakes, the time will have come for us to leave." In the sprawling headquarters of the International Cooperation Administration in downtown Port-au-Prince, ICA Director for Latin America Rollin Atwood wound up a rigid, five-day inspection and said: "From a year ago, Haiti has made tremendous progress...
After winding through the Yard, they poured into the Square, attracting a crowd which eventually numbered 2000. "The boys were having a hell of a time," the Cambridge police chief said later of the most violent rioting in the Square in a decade...
...fifth, then another ("Here's the second dead soldier," remarked a steward, as he tossed an empty into the trash), then topped them off with an extra pint. Never really boisterous, the two men spent their time bending the ears of other passengers on the junket. "Hell," burbled one mayor, "we're not down here to look at this meet; we're down here to have a good time. When are you going to bring on the dancing girls...
...others, but Post Publisher Philip Graham decided that Herblock needed a fulltime pinch hitter. Herblock agreed. "He went madly for the idea," said Graham. "I had Duffy down last week and he agreed to come to work for us. As for policy, I don't know what the hell it is myself. Duffy can draw as he likes." Until Herblock returns, Duffy will do just that...
...genre becomes art when the painter touches common scenes with unexpected beauty or significance. David Gilmour Blythe's Trial Scene goes beyond the quaintness of the once-familiar to touch upon hell. The loutish, evil-looking jurors, the shouting prosecutor and the passive, shackled prisoner in yellow crudely resemble the phantasmagorias of Hieronymous Bosch, but they relate to fact. In Blythe's time, there was a proto-union of Irish immigrant miners that violently opposed exploitation by American industry. Calling themselves the "Molly Maguires" after the famed Irish rebel,*they operated outside the law, tried and condemned opponents...