Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frontier to defend. If Iran falls behind the Iron Curtain, 290 miles more of Soviet frontier (plus a likely invasion route, past Mt. Ararat) will be added to Turkey's defense problem. From a military point of view, Eisenhower's right flank is certainly stuck away the hell and gone out into enemy territory...
...interview with him, he put a Mexican folk-dance on the record-player and said, "Don't go just now. Wait, this is very good." And then as the sound of music filled the room, he added under his breath, "If one must go to hell, one might just as well go to music...
...Deal vastly increased the opportunity to make private hay with public funds and the pols who came after 1944 were not dedicated men. A friend was a friend, a favor was a friendly act, and a gift was a friendly act in return, and why in the hell shouldn't a man get a little something for all his hard work and loyalty to the party...
...order on the spot. In San Francisco, Smyth insisted that he and his men were taking a "bum rap," yet Smyth seemed to have an extraordinarily relaxed attitude toward his job. According to the Kefauver Committee, Smyth was two years late in collecting some of his own income tax. "Hell, I hadn't done anything crooked," he explained. "I didn't pay the tax because I didn't have the dough...
...trailing reminiscences. It is the kind of book a man might have written for himself and his friends, random recollections never meant for a critical eye. But "Doc" Williams has always written for himself. Of a critic who once doubted the worth of his poetry, he wrote: "To hell with him . . . Tell him to go wipe his nose...