Word: hellishness
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Behind this ring of fire, the operator could watch until some soldier drew near, then touch off a hellish burst. Allied officials said the weapon shot a jet flame 15 yards, where it ballooned out into a ball of fire 40 yards in diameter. Jerry called it the Abwehrflammenwerfer (defensive flame-thrower...
...reporter spelled out the launchings in heartfelt detail: "An NCO presses a black button. The earth trembles. A hellish sound. . . In a fraction of a second the gigantic explosive missile shoots off and glides as quick as lightning over the launching track . . . with a gruesome roaring and thundering...
...pints of mild & bitter in a local pub) tried hard to think of something spectacular that had happened to the ship. On one raid, it is true, a burst of flak fountained up right through the open bomb bay. Hot steel fragments rattled against cold steel bombs with a hellish din. But nothing happened...
Sometimes weeping softly, sometimes roaring with rage, frog-voiced Mr. Riebel blamed all the troubles at Brewster on the "hellish" contract it had with C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers. He lashed out at the union's tough, headstrong boss, Tom De Lorenzo, impaled lesser officials as "punks and heels," denounced the local itself as that "gang of forty thieves." Carefully he explained that those opinions had grown in him only after he came to Brewster, last March. He had cozied up to the union. Said he: "I got in bed with Tom De Lorenzo, with the cover tucked...
...Twas hellish good fun," said one pilot returning to Tramraid...