Word: mell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this point, The Birth of a World becomes a pell-mell yarn. Time & again, Revolutionist Bolivar's army was reduced to a handful of men. With despairing patience he wrote articles and letters urging military discipline, an end to jealousy and anarchy among the patriot leaders. "Our army," he wrote, "is a sack with a hole at the bottom"-words that might have come from Valley Forge. Through sheer necessity, he became a brilliant guerrilla campaigner, making up in mobility and surprise what he lacked in numbers. Before he was through, he and his followers had routed the Spaniards...
...week long, the whereabouts of the bulk of the U.S. Eighth Army, along the Seoul-Taejon axis, was obscured by censorship. For all that news readers in the U.S. knew to the contrary, the Eighth might have been retreating pell- mell toward Taejon. This week news of an allied counterattack in the Osan sector made it clear that the Army was no longer in retreat...
...soldiers were not the only sharp observers. Mrs. Mary A. Ward of Rome, Ga., telling what it was like to be waiting for the Yankees, gets the anxiety across without theatrics. "Hams would be jerked out of the smokehouse, and holes would be dug and everything thrown in pell mell. Then we would begin to imagine that because we knew where those things were, the first Yankee that appeared would know, too, and often we would go and take them all up from there and dig another hole and put them in that; so that our yards began to look...
...change was Founder Curtis Gate himself. For 40 years "the King" had taught the boys classics and the Bible, led the hymns each morning in his booming bass voice. He had been a familiar figure galloping along the riding trails in jodhpurs and long English jacket, or driving pell-mell along country roads in his old Dodge touring car. But one day last week, more than 500 Santa Barbara schoolboys, parents and alumni gathered in the school gym to hear Headmaster Gate talk about one more change...