Word: hellishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mayor of Naha to farmers whose land had been requisitioned by the U.S. military. What they saw-new towns, new roads, new factories-was in great contrast to the derogatory stories that the jingoistic Japanese press had been reporting, or the banners that greeted them in Okinawa about "inhuman hellish activities of the Americans." As they boarded the plane that was to take them back to Tokyo, they were full of praise. "What the U.S. has done here is wonderful," said one. Said Takanaga Mitsui of the famed Mitsui industrial clan: "In some ways you Okinawans are better off than...
...Stevenson, however, the process of preparing one or two long speeches every day is hellish. His three secretaries who sleep as best they can on cavalcade tours, begin work usually after Stevenson's evening speech continuing into the early morning. But Stevenson, who is looking more each day like a 20-hour-a-day candidate, works harder and longer than any of his staff, reporters say. "If he breaks down," one newsman commented, "there'll be a real health issue in this campaign...
...permanent night underground is not for sissies, as many a bruised alpinist knows after haughtily trying subterranean slumming. The most rugged U.S. cave, West Virginia's hellish Schoolhouse−featuring such obstacles as "bottomless" (down to 70 ft.) fissures and sheer-rock faces that long defied human spiders, 180-ft. dropoffs past receding walls in thin air−can be negotiated by the most skilled mountaineers in eight to ten hours, round trip. As the bat flies, Schoolhouse is a mere 1,600 ft. long, but the rate of travel for the best spelunkers is less than...
...second in a 32-mile race from Ste. Agathe to Shawbridge, Que. The next year he led a dozen skiers on a 150-mile trip north of Mont Trem-blant, through the Five Finger Lakes area and down the Devil's River Valley. "The old guy set a hellish pace," remembers a Montreal businessman who went along. "He nearly killed us." Until recently, Pop used to jazz up meetings of the Red Bird Ski Club (which he helped to found) by standing on his head on the dinner table. "He'd do it still," says a Red Bird...
...Black Nation. Cursed beyond most corners of Elizabeth's empire with a hellish climate and a poverty that festers through vast acres of its capital city in some of the world's most squalid slums, Nigeria is nevertheless an optimistic and happy land. An all-black nation whose non-African residents number only 16,000, it has no notion of the meaning of apartheid or Jim Crow. Eager for and already well on its way to self-government, Nigeria bears no grudges. "Why should we be anti-British?" Nigerians are likely to answer if queried...