Word: hellings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thieu, who takes a tough line toward negotiations with the Viet Cong, has been known to say: "First we beat the hell out of them, then we talk with them." Nonetheless, with a popularly elected government in power, with political stability reasonably assured, and with the army concentrating on the war, the less intransigent members of the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front may decide sooner than anyone expects that the time has finally come to sit down and talk...
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...sane person doubts any longer that war is hell. Even so, many readers of this massive and unremittingly gory novel are bound to wonder if the German conquest of Poland in World War II was actually the unrelieved hellish nightmare that Author Kuniczak makes it out to be. Heads are lopped off, noses pulverized, bellies carved up, teeth knocked out-and occasionally somebody is even shot...
...fiery socialist editor (the Masses, Liberator), a dedicated sexual adventurer and a noisy defender of Communism. Since the 1940s, he has been a sometime roving editor for the Reader's Digest, a proclaimed expert on Russian skulduggery, and a boastful chronicler of his youthful capacity for hell-raising (Love and Revolution...
...fierce-tempered Panamanian who prides himself on being a fine judge of wine and women (his wife is a former Miss Universe) as well as horse flesh, Manny Ycaza is a throwback to the old hell-for-leather days of racing- before sharp-eyed stewards and patrol cameras- when herding, crowding, blocking, intimidating, or even rapping rival riders across the ribs with a whip were part of the game. Understandably, he has few friends among his fellow jocks. Nor is it very surprising that in eleven years, he has been "set down," or suspended, for a total of 608 days...