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Word: hells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went off-just as Birdzell jumped, clawing for his own revolver. The guard bolted instinctively for the street-partly to draw the gunman's fire away from the President's quarters, partly to leave a clear field for the Tommy gunner behind the door. Then hell's own corn popper began to grind in front of Blair-Lee House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Fanatics' Errand | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...Give 'em hell, Harry," someone shouted. "All right, I'm doing it," shouted Harry Truman. "Go to the polls . . . vote for yourselves, vote for your future . . . vote for the Democratic ticket." Then he went off to Independence, Mo. to follow his own advice, from there planned to return to Washington to hear how many of his fellow countrymen thought his advice was right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Give 'em Hell, Harry | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...want women to grow their own hair," said Madame. "They look like hell while it's growing and just about when it's grown there will be a new fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Chignon or Chihuahua | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...probably Chinese, achieved complete surprise. O'Rama and his buddies were still talking about the bugles "when a hand grenade was thrown into our hole." Some cavalryman thonght their attackers were insane. Said a U.S. sergeant: "They would stand right up in front of you laughing to beat hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Crazy Horse Rides Again | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...years in the ranks. This would be U.M.S. (Universal Military Service), not U.M.T. It also had the backing of Marine Reserve Brigadier General Melvin Maas, ex-Congressman from Minnesota, who last week was named to a Pentagon committee to restudy the whole reserve problem. "It will be expensive as hell," Maas observed. "But we ought to be able to afford it if the Russians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL DEFENSE: A Career for Young Men | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

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