Word: hellishness
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...flagman and brakemen went through the head cars, coolly instructing passengers to lie down or brace themselves in their seats. Still whistling wildly, the train jolted into a switch with its coaches careering behind it, raced down its appointed track and into the terminal like some vast, noisy and hellish projectile. Engineer Brower was seen gesticulating from the cab like a madman as he went by. At that moment, it seemed that nothing could prevent a disaster...
...Mask of a Lion, Author A. T. W. Simeons shows that the life of a leper is not always as hellish as Govind had supposed. Simeons is a London-born, Heidelberg-trained doctor who spent about 20 years in India. Now a consultant at Rome's International Hospital, he has written a novel that makes amateurish fiction but has the fascination of its grisly material. If the book is read simply as a knowing, colorful report on the lepers' way of life, its inadequacies as a novel can be comfortably ignored...
...William Tecumseh Sherman was far from insane. Though he certainly overestimated the forces facing him in Kentucky, he was in many respects the most brilliant commander the Union had, and one of the few who saw the war from its beginning as a brutal, hellish struggle to the death. Sherman's trouble was that his mind was all too subtly balanced, that he was a man of imagination as well...
...very few losses. Their morale remained high. They were no longer alarmed when temporarily surrounded. Some of the more defiant noncoms and junior officers were reluctant to withdraw when they thought they could stand fast, but most were encouraged by persistent rumors that they would soon be quitting the hellish Korean theater altogether...
Open the Gates. Suppose a truly Christ-like figure were to appear in a hellish Malayan prison camp such as Panchor. The thought has never for a moment occurred to Chaplain Choyce. He is known to the officers and men as "the Padre with-the Modern Approach." .Bustling with professional cheerfulness, he has a pat formula for every distress and a manly chin-up sermon for every misery, but he is about as spiritual as an auctioneer. And then he meets Andros, a soldier whose inability, or unwillingness, to identify himself is taken by the British medics behind the barbed...