Word: hellishness
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...ground without anti-aircraft or pursuit, the Dutchman ran out to one of the Fortresses and wrenched a 30-calibre machine gun out of it. He started firing like mad, and damned if he didn't shoot one down. You know, it's a hellish job even to hold a machine gun. This Dutchman had held it by the barrel, which was almost red-hot. He held up his left hand. The flesh was burned off. He just smiled and said...
...meet the Germans coming in, narrowly missed a grenading by an advance Nazi motorcycle squad, and with a U.S. military attaché drove upstream through the Panzer army to Belgrade. His further progress eastward included a stop in Ankara, a hitch in Syria on the British push into that hellish terrain, and the job of covering the Cretan campaign from Cairo...
...artillerymen (antiaircraft) sent over from the continental U.S., plus some 14,000 Puerto Rican recruits who had been taken into expanded Regular Army units, or into two Puerto Rican National Guard regiments. All the Puerto Ricans were volunteers. To miserable, jobless and underpaid natives from San Juan's hellish slums, or from the poverty-ridden countryside, the Army's $21 a month looked like a fortune. These unfortunates, underfed, underbred, did the best they could in U.S. uniforms. They would have done a little better if they had had more U.S. equipment. Mixing them in with regulars from...
...arts and sciences must be purified. No more need peaceful, respectable persons listen to the barbaric, Hunnish melodies of Brahms, Bach, Beethoven Mozart, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Schubert, Strauss; no more need our ears be offended at Christmas time by the hellish notes of Stille Nacht, the voice of Schumann-Heink; no more of the militaristic preachings of Schiller, Goethe, Luther...
...Hellenes were Hellish too. They had carefully mined the roads and primed the bridges with TNT-and, unlike the Dutch and French, apparently did not forget to touch off the charges. Greece's Metaxas Line-pillboxes, barbed wire, trenches-was ironically strongest opposite neutral Bulgaria; nevertheless it offered barriers. The first line ran from Fiorina to the sea. The Greeks furthermore diverted streams on to roads, used every hillock and rock for sniping. Italian Alpinists are among the best mountain troops in Europe; but the Greek evzones-picturesque, wiry men in white jackets and kilts, slippers with turned...