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Word: hells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modern corps. The battle cry of a leathery Marine sergeant in World War I ("Come on, you sons of bitches. Do you want to live forever?") had its echoes two winters ago in Marine General O. P. Smith's description of the withdrawal from the Changjin Reservoir: "Retreat, hell. We're just advancing in a different direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Sunday Punch | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

...fundamentalist common-denominational brand of Christianity. As a teenager, Billy sold more Fuller brushes than any other salesman in his North Carolina area because he was convinced that there are no finer brushes than Fuller brushes, and his conviction was contagious. The grown-up Billy believes in a heaven & hell as tangible as a Fuller brush. Graham likes to talk about his evangelism in Fuller brush terms: "How much of my product can I get them to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: PERSONALITY | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

...over & over-there's the rub-first you get sick-then you get sicker-then you get not quite so sick-then you get hardly sick at all-then you get a little sicker-then you get a lot sicker-then you get not quite so sick-oh, hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mostly a Maine Girl | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

...that night the baby elephant stood tethered while Oberjohann sat in a giant acacia tree, to wait for the mother's attack and watch the proceedings. At 2 a.m., "the night turned into a roaring, crashing hell." The acacia tree was torn from its roots, and Oberjohann was hurled 15 feet into some thorn bushes. In a few minutes, he says, the mother smashed 14 acacias and some 50 other trees, trampling them almost level with the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Elephants in the Raw | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

Poor Adlai! Here is a man who prepares intelligent speeches, presents them in the best diction, and gets chided for sounding "too good" and not having the "down to earth" approach ... I say he has the right idea and to hell with the Taft clique and smug Republican governors who sit on their thrones and moan for his neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 3, 1952 | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

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