Word: helluva
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...Thomson encourages this view. He tells risque stories at stuffy editorial conferences, invites everyone to call him Roy, and rides the London underground more often than his blue Cadillac or Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud. Thom son's editors have full rein: "I've got people with a helluva lot more editorial ability than I've got, and I'd be doing them and myself a disservice to inject myself into the papers." Besides, Roy Thomson is too busy peering through his binocular-thick glasses at more good buys on the world's far horizons...
When the blue-yonder airmen first learned that they were to be grounded into train duty, the inevitable cry was, "It's a helluva way to run an air force...
...Maybe,' " says one staffer. "God help anybody who starts to answer Quesada with a speech in explanation for having goofed off. His bawlings-out are fierce. He's no brilliant guy, but what he does have is a helluva sense of duty and principle in public service...
Everyone connected with this production has brought along the necessary amount of wit. And I strongly urge you to see for yourself that Shakespeare could turn out a helluva good bedroom farce...
Sergeant Nolen squinted through his spotterscope at two Communist observation towers on the opposite side, talked to a TIME correspondent about the 19 East Germans who recently escaped into his sector. "Gives me the creeps, this place." muttered one of Nolen's men. "What a helluva life it must be on the other side...