Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turned south, when Captain Harvey led his men into a narrow valley, Chinese on the crests poured mortar and machine-gun fire on the Gloucesters. "It was a case of running, one group firing while the others crossed that spot, then running while the others fired. It was really hell there, I can tell you. Chaps were falling all around, marking the route like a bloody paper-chase. But the chaps were magnificent. No panicking. Magnificent...
...sort of waggled his wings at the tanks -sort of a signal I guess-and they lifted their fire on to the Chinese machine guns. An American lieutenant said we'd have to make a run for it, so we climbed on the tanks and away we went, hell for leather, right through the Chinese...
...chief purchasing officer for the A.E.F. and a brigadier general. After the war, Dawes urged the appointment of a national budget director, became, under President Harding, the nation's first, won later fame for the Dawes Plan (1924) for easing Germany's reparations payments. His profanity ("Hell 'n Maria") and tart, impulsive manner caused comment at home, more so abroad. In England, as U.S. Ambassador, he staunchly refused to appear in the standard knee breeches,* turned up at court wearing ordinary evening dress and at state functions smoked the big underslung pipe that became his trademark...
...getting a hell of a lot out of it too. These Niemans are a remarkable lot. I applied to be with them as a guy who writes mag articles. I feel that mags are becoming a more important kind of journalism. Up here there are so many people who know so much. I've been hanging out with them at lunch and at their houses. I'm trying to develop a technique of informational strategy--I don't like the word propaganda and what it stands...
...spare time, Bill is trying to write his third book. "I'm writing one on how to write articles for mags. I'm writing it especially for part-time writers like naval officers, housewives, and businessmen. If everyone could only write well, they could make a hell of a lot of money and impart their knowledge to a lot of people...