Word: hell
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Next day, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, Cecil Wetzel, a lumberman, ex-collegiate wrestler, driving a logging truck through the thick woods, was stopped by a beak-nosed man in a sedan who asked: "How the hell do I get out of here?" Wetzel stared at the man and at the curly-haired child beside him. He stepped out of his truck and demanded: "How about that baby?" The beak-nosed man yanked out a revolver. Wetzel dived at him, overpowered him and, with the help of another lumberman who came running, tied...
With a shattering roar an explosion forward of the engine room threw the vessel violently on its beams, next minute a second torpedo crashed into the engine room. In an instant the whole ship was a hell of fire and water. Through the gaping holes in her sides, water poured into the ship, trapping scores of passengers, some of them wounded by the blast. In the darkness and storm it was almost impossible to launch lifeboats. She was listing farther every minute...
...they knew that scattered about in its dismal rooms was a varied assortment of once eminent French leaders. They might be scapegoats, they might face dishonor they did not warrant, but to the little people of France it looked at last as if someone was going to catch hell for the social, political and military debacle that culminated in what was grandiosely called the Battle of France...
...Dover, now a way station on Hell's Corridor from Dunkirk to London, tall (6 ft. 5 in.), eccentric, Harvard-bred Guy Murchie of the Chicago Tribune, a onetime seaman, chauffeur, section hand, longshoreman, gravedigger, author (Men on the Horizon), was standing by a window in his top-floor hotel room while a squadron of German bombers droned overhead. He was talking with two naval officers and his assistant, Australian Stanley Johnstone, when there was an explosion. The whole side of the hotel collapsed. Down through four floors dropped Newsman Murchie in a shower of timbers, bricks, soot, debris...
...their diagnoses of the ills of the younger generation. They state that the current undergraduate is skeptical of principles and moral issues and has no concept of the difference between right and wrong. The student of today has followed the broad path of science down into the smoking hell of positivism and empirical rationalism, a hell whose number one devil is John Dewey...