Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week both politicians and reporters wondered whether Dwight Eisenhower's experiences with the 85th Congress would prompt him to alter his philosophy. Did he plan to wage a Truman-type "Give 'em hell" campaign next year against the men who had opposed his programs? His no was clear and unqualified. Said he at the press conference: "I will just have to pursue what is natural...
...Battle Hell (Wilcox-Neagle; DCA). Britain's pride in her navy is amply documented here in a superbly realistic re-enactment of Britain's own "Yangtze incident." In the spring of 1949, when the Reds were taking control in China, the British frigate H.M.S. Amethyst steamed up the Yangtze, bound for Nanking, to bring supplies to Britain's embassy. The Chinese Communist army, deployed on the Yangtze's north bank and preparing to make many crossings, opened up on the Amethyst, clobbered the vessel without provocation, nearly sank her before she ran aground. This all happened...
Vine Leaves to Harvard Club. Young Cozzens may have been a showoff, but he never really was a rebel, then or later. Says a friend: "No vine leaves in his hair -the Greeks are not in him.'3-Even Cozzens' career as a Harvard ('26) hell-raiser was brief. At Harvard he was part of a splinter intelligentsia-Poet-Instructor Robert Hillyer, Classicist Dudley Fitts et al.-and kept flailing away at a novel that appeared early in his sophomore year. Aptly titled Confusion, it concerned a shimmering young sylph named Cerise D'Atre...
...concerned about is the depths to which military discipline has fallen. The fact of the matter is-Wheeler refused to obey a lawful order given him by a superior. If every soldier, sailor, marine or airman suddenly decided to disobey an order, the U.S. would be in a hell of a fix. The people of this country have a choice: A disciplined, effective military establishment or a rabble consisting of graduated juvenile delinquents, with Elvis Presley haircuts...
...survival for airmen, Steeves waved emptily at the brandnew grey Jaguar he bought shortly before his famed adventure. "Look. I've lost everything in the world-my wife. What have I got with all this publicity? I've got a nice car. I'm lonesome as hell...