Word: hell
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...young Canadians about to be conscripted, say to American youth: "Learn to fight, but keep your weather eyes open for idealists" from Europe-they smell of blood! And we hope we come in with you soon, to make this North America safe and to hell with Europe...
...Harry Hopkins] said the people were 'too damn dumb' to understand the reason why the New Deal can get away with the things it has. . . . You don't look 'dumb' to me." In a confused moment he made his first blunder, let slip: "To hell with Chicago." The cavalcade rushed off to the financial district, LaSalle Street. There Chicago's cool reception turned tumultuous. A ticker-tape blizzard showered down...
...solvents recovery building, something went wrong with the brew. A small explosion made employes in the other 49 buildings take alarm. Flames shot from the windows of the recovery house. Before men could let go their held breath, 200,000 pounds of smokeless powder went up in a hell's delight of flame and thunder...
Last week Britain admitted that certain airfields near the coast-along Hell's Corridor, that hot narrow path along which most raiders flew-were knocked out cold. But the R. A. F. maintained that Britain was still a tight little isle, and that fighters could rise to the defense from the London area and inland just as well as from the coast. If plane casualties were mounting, the R. A. F. replied that plane production was also mounting, and pilots could now fly their machines up to the hilt of action, then bail out if necessary...
Last week Tim Pile was told that his men must bear a heavier burden of defense. One night air-raid wardens circulated through their districts, saying: "There'll be a hell of a racket tonight, but don't worry, it's something our boys are putting up." When the enemy came over, the noise broke out, like dozens of summer storms. It was Tim Pile's new tactic. Instead of trying to hold enemy planes in the long fingers of searchlights and aiming at them, AA defenses set up a box barrage, all the guns firing...