Word: hellishness
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...beach on D-day would hardly recognize their hellish beachhead nowadays. Eight thousand Seabees under Commodore Robert Johnson have built some of the world's longest runways, moved four million cubic yards of earth and even sliced the top off Mt. Suribachi. A Japanese major who recently came out of a cave blinked around and paid the Seabees the ultimate tribute. Said he: "Impossible...
...Flame. Then there was the hellish vortex of battle-the high-pitched screeches and sharp bursts of shells, the awful concussions, the crunching torture of the earth itself. The Russian tanks passed on and over...
...sound of the engine reflected faithfully by the towering cliffs ahead. The boat goes faster & faster, and at last races altogether out of control. We see the pilot wringing his hands and hear his frightened moans as, the boat roars for the rocks, and crashes with a series of hellish explosions, the broken propeller thrashing against the stone...
...Sleeve. In the Nijmegen-Arnhem salient, which the fearful Germans had flooded by opening the Waal dikes, General Crerar's Canadians, rested from the hellish battle of the Scheldt Estuary had wheeled into line again alongside the British. An all-out British-Canadian thrust across the Maas, or against the Arnhem flank, might put almost intolerable pressure on the German reserves, ease the way for a new U.S. push on Cologne...
...September, . harassed London breathed a great sigh and shook hands with itself. The Canadian Army had overrun the robomb coast across the Channel: the hellish Things had stopped diving on the city and its environs. A week of blessed peace and quiet followed. Then the Things started coming again...