Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...setting sun painted one last patch of sky a peaceful, soothing yellow. A Marine chaplain standing on the ridge with me looked first at the sunlit sky in the west, then back at the smoke and fire around us. "Heaven on one side," he said slowly, "and hell on the other...
...Inchon now. Our marines on the little island were spitting tracers at the sea wall on which we were so soon to land. We stopped dead in the water and waited. The rocket ships cut loose, their missiles tearing into Red Beach, turning it into a whistling, howling hell. The sea wall seemed as high as the RCA Building...
...admit grudgingly that she was their match when it came to bravery and beats. More than once, Maggie Higgins has jeeped or hiked to hot spots while other correspondents hung back, thus forced them to go along, too. Said one colleague ruefully: "She's either brave as hell or stupid. Her energy and recklessness make it tough on all the others." She likes to send back such me-&-the-war stories as: "A reinforced American patrol, accompanied by this correspondent, this afternoon barreled eight miles deep through enemy territory . . . The jeep flew faster than the bullets which knicked just...
...They don't like airbursts, and I don't blame them," the general said, peering through his glasses. "In the last war the Germans got me under airbursts and it scared the hell...
...general was silent on the way to his headquarters. When he got there he walked unwillingly toward his desk. The desk had a pile of papers on it. Gay looked at them with distaste, plunked down his helmet. "I've been having myself a hell of a time," he said as if to himself. He looked at the papers and added: "But I guess that's the sort of thing generals ought not to be doing...