Word: helter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...look, I don't mind most things, the bugles blowing in the Yard and all those guys marching around, that I can get used to. But for years now when they put out a Poon, it came out one-at-a-time, sorta easy like, none of this helter-skelter, war production stuff from the Bow Street grotto, no siree...
...youthful enthusiasms have run helter-skelter since he left Yale in 1929. First, deciding to dabble in politics, he published a pamphlet called The Standard Political Handbook, sold it to the Sun Oil Co. for a filling-station handout. Ten years ago he bought the rights to the New York Sun's famed Christmas editorial, "Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus," gets a royalty each time it is reprinted. When his lumber deals began to pile up a neat fortune, he bought a bankrupt professional football club, the New York Yankees, which shuddered a bit, then died...
Most of all, they had shown that independence of air power (which the R.A.F. has long had) does not mean helter-skelter employment in battle. Tunisia had proved that independence can be harnessed when the needs of battle call...
...learned to venerate the old-line, wind-beaten, open-cockpit veteran of the Air Corps. They told each other the story of the night he stood on a London rooftop observing a German air raid. The Nazis' aim was wild, the bombs fell helter-skelter. Spaatz began to fume and curse, suddenly roared: "The damn fools are setting air power back 20 years...
...since Doolittle led the raid on Tokyo has the U.S. had a glimpse inside Japan. On that occasion the enemy was seen running helter-skelter from a rain of bombs. Last week the U.S. Navy got a report of a peep through a periscope. The enemy was at a horse race...