Word: hellishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fleeing unarmed into the jungle. Pro-Japanese guerrilla bands were reported to have recaptured 30 Frenchmen and killed them slowly. "The Japanese herded us together like cattle," reported an escaped Legionnaire. "Some had cover but most of us sprawled or sat for four days in the open under a hellish sun." The Japanese slapped white captives to prove to native soldiers that it could be done...
...century ago Bellevue was a filthy, hellish pesthouse for typhus and yellow fever; 50 years ago a dumping ground for drunken bums, bastards, lunatics, penniless incurables. Fear of the place is still widespread among New York City's ignorant poor, especially the foreign-born...
...Truth about Belgium, The Netherlands, Norway, occupied France was pretty much the hellish picture which John Cudahy painted. According to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, continental Europe has enough food to subsist through the winter. But the food is not where it is most needed, in war-riven Europe probably will not be evenly distributed. Result: actual or near starvation for millions. Said the British last week: "Belgium and the other occupied countries will have to make up their shortages from Germany. . . ." Said a German broadcaster: "Who in the world ever expected a victor to provide his enemies...
...guttersnipe, a mediocre little man with a mediocre mind, acting just as any fanatical, substandard person would act. . . . The fool cannot even see that he is destroying himself and his people. . . . Hitler is just a dirty gutter fighter. . . . We should set American science to work devising the most hellish instruments of defense the mind can conceive. . . . If a beneficent God, as we believe, cast an archangel into eternal fire, why should we be choosy about what we may have to do to Hitler the Horrible and his horde...
...least one British division and two French remained in the hellish strip at Dunkirk pounded now by German artillery as well as bombs, when a stocky figure in a soiled field uniform at last consented to obey orders from London and embark. Accompanied only by two staff officers, General the Viscount Gort stepped into a small boat and went home in soldierly silence. Chief of Staff General Sir John Greer Dill greeted him grimly. King George called him to Buckingham Palace to receive the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. Promised Lord Gort: "We will meet them again...