Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Raising Hell with Nasser...
Thank you for your thought-provoking stories on the Middle East. We should have a Nasser around this black man's hell and white man's paradise to kick out the color-conscious white men, whose only interests seem to be getting good salaries out of this so-called democratic British colony...
...coxswain made a quick personal decision to execute the classic naval maneuver known as getting the hell out of here. Our escorts and minesweeper broke off and began firing back at the Communist PTs and gunboats that had ambushed us. Blood-red tracers zipped, skipped and finally floated out like spent skyrocket bursts as they sought targets. Brilliant, diamond-bright air bursts from Communist shore batteries to the east rained shrapnel down. Over the roar of small boats' motors rose the baritone whump of Nationalist three-inchers and the chatter of both sides' machine guns...
Will the government be able to keep the population directed toward Communism? This is a major unanswered question. Ordinary Russians show signs of a to-hell-with-Communism, give-us-more-consumer-goods attitude that the government cannot ignore, and even of old-style Midwestern isolationist resentment against Soviet "giveaways" to China and India. But in any case, we must face this generalization: any changes in the Soviet Union within the next few years will be within the Soviet system and not against it. The Soviet people do not want to be liberated...
...There are secretaries across the way, and we don't want them to be embarrassed." Announced another: "If you wake up in the middle of the night and there's a little man playing with your radiator let him play with it. Last night was colder than hell, and there wasn't any hot water...