Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inscrutable voter, who had chastened them all in 1948, seemed even more inscrutable in 1950. Said Senatorial Candidate D. Worth Clark of Idaho: "I've never seen a year when it was so difficult to tell what the voters have on their minds." An Indiana politician admitted candidly: "Hell, there's not a single soul in the state who can tell whether it's going to be a rout or a close election, let alone tell...
...Mallory Almond was impatient to hear the latest battlefront news from U.S. military adviser Colonel Sterling Wright. A near-hysterical Korean operator broke into the call. "Oh, save us, save us, General Almond," she wailed. Tart-tongued in moments of exasperation, the Chief of Staff answered: "What in the hell do you think we're trying to do? Whose planes do you think were flying over Seoul today...
...shower) to drive his own jeep to some jumping-off point. He got to know by name every X Corps battalion commander, talked to several score men in the ranks daily. One G.I. gave him this passing mark: "The soldiers here may not like him, but they sure as hell admire him. That's one general who sticks his neck out just like we have...
...Fords decked out in the standard black & white police paint job, but fitted with souped-up 110-h.p. hot-rod engines. "It gives these smart alecks a shock when we pull alongside and tell them to pull over," crowed one cop after a successful chase. "They wonder where the hell we came from...
Middle age had transformed many of the party's principles as well as its appearance. Keir Hardie, for example, had been an uncompromising pacifist. His cause was carried on at Margate by Hardie's son-in-law Emrys Hughes, who bitterly cried: "They have made a hell upon earth in Korea and they call it collective security." Other speakers acknowledged the old pacifist tradition, but the party's new attitude to war was clearly stated by Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. Fresh from the New York Foreign Ministers' conference, Bevin urged collective security and alignment with...