Word: helluva
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...helluva sight tougher. . . . On Guadalcanal we counted 2,300 Japs lying out in front of the division; we captured 22. But we've captured Germans by the thousands . . . probably captured ten to every one we've killed...
...strategic bombing forces. "Tooey" Spaatz is a hardboiled, able airman who has fought the battles of air power all the way from Washington to Britain to Africa and back to Britain again, shrugging off every disappointment, every setback, with the glumly philosophic phrase: "That's a helluva way to run a railroad...
...when there won't be any More . . . ditto Hershie for assistant -- he's a wicked-worker when it comes to a watch bill . . . They're telling around Littauer that 240 of the 240-odd (!) members of the company asked for amphib duty, if the truth were known . . . Had a helluva time pruning down...
...then there's John (Just-Call-Mepete) Harrington who would be a helluva story if he'd only talk for publication like he's scuttlebutted to talk in the privacy of almost anybody's quarters. John is an ex-G-Man, but when "grilled" about it he just says, "no thanks, old man, I never did go for that publicity stuff," and then turns on that "Jimmy Durante" smile...
Leaving Portland last week, Mayor Riley was unabashed by his mission. Said he: "I'm going to talk to everyone, from the hoi polloi on down. . . . I've got one helluva responsibility ahead...