Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hell's fire." said Dwight D. Eisenhower as he shook the hand of Colonel Keith Ware, who once commanded 1st Battalion. 15th Infantry Regiment. "I used to command that outfit myself." The President was trading service talk about the ist Battalion, 15th Infantry and about other outfits with each of 216 Medal of Honor holders, who came to see him in the White House's rose garden on Memorial Day before they all went out to the burial of the unknown servicemen from World War II and Korea. Meeting an aging vet from the Philippine Scouts, he said...
...always happy about the front-page ads," says Globe Treasurer John I. Taylor, "but this is a competitive newspaper town, and these ads bring us money." When the Traveler once tried to cut down its outsize headlines, says Managing Editor Hal Clancy, "our circulation went to hell. We have to have them." Fighting for street sales, which comprise up to 40% of average sales, the Globe packs the front page with short leads, which leap helter-skelter to inside pages...
...predict that that picture of Marilyn Monroe in TIME, May 5, will bring the sale of sack dresses to a screeching halt. Hell, that might as well have been Vaughn Monroe. JACK SHERIDAN JOHN HOWBERT Denver...
...called in the press. He scurried nimbly behind the gleaming 8-ft. walnut desk (''the biggest damn desk I could find at Marshall Field's"), flung himself down in the swivel chair and surveyed the crowded office with snapping blue eyes. "You gotta fight like hell to get up." he said, "then it's goddam tough...
...Hell's Pastures. His narrative is largely concerned with Major John Stone, an American who first came to Paris as holder of a scholarship in cello playing, played the organ briefly in a corrective school for girls, and, war being war, wound up an OSS operative in the French resistance. In a novel given to symbolism, his chosen code name tells much of the man and the book. It is "Dante" -the man who came back from Hell. Humes, no Virgil, conducts his Dante through the small hells of war, dishonor, and the loss of love. Hell, he suggests...