Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western seafarers inquired as they headed their frail caravels toward the edge of the world. "Because it looketh down upon hell," others replied-and yet they all sailed on across the fearful horizon seeking glory, God and gold. Royal Britain sounded the fanfare, demolishing the Spanish Armada in 1588, dashing France off Cape Trafalgar in 1805, ushering in Pax Britannica with its Mediterranean life line-Gibraltar, Malta, Suez-and its rich markets for the Industrial Revolution. "Talk of fun!" Winston Churchill cried beside the Nile. ''Where will you beat this? On horseback, at daybreak, within shot...
...acting is adequate--the best performance being turned in by the horse--but the film's main attraction is still the photography. The Phantom Horse was made by the same people who produced Gate of Hell, and with some of the same success...
...jutting jaw appears on the television screen. At that moment Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the U.S.-the ranking elder statesman (he hates the words) in a party that has not had an active ex-President around since Grover Cleveland-will begin to give 'em hell. Truman's aim: to send his party into the 1956 campaign with the lusty, brawling, they-can't-beat-us sort of Democracy that Truman himself represents...
...individualism and a respect for white-skinned authority were the stuff of which empires were made. While still an undergraduate at Cambridge, "Grogs" Grogan earned the envy of Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes by walking the 4,500-mile length of Africa from Cape Town to Cairo "just for the hell of it." "You have done what has been the ambition of every explorer," Rhodes wrote, "and it makes me the more certain that we shall complete the [Cape toCairo] railway,* for surely I am not going to be beaten by the legs of an undergraduate...
...done, Managing Editor Turner Catledge sent off a brief "well done" to his staff. To hear him tell it, the old Times was not even breathing hard. Said he, with a mile-wide grin: "Hell, that's what the news is-an emergency. Why, we look at this as pretty much routine...