Word: hell
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...primarily used for protection from enemy pursuit. The machine-gun sight in front of the pilot is also his bomb sight and, with no more complicated sighting equipment than that, he is able to make dive bombing as accurate as the U. S. Navy and its Curtis, O2C Hell Diver long ago (1928) proved it could be against seacraft. The only new aspect of Germany's dive bombing is that it is used to a large extent on land targets, supplementing and substituting for heavy artillery fire...
When police arrived at the "Black House" of Sir Oswald's British Union, they did not find the Führer himself, but eight black-shirted comrades who lined up and shouted "Hell Mosley!" before they were hustled off to Brixton Gaol. Married with Nazi pomp to Diana Guinness, sister of the Führer's bullet-punctured friend Unity Freeman-Mitford, with Hitler reported to have been best man. Sir Oswald recently celebrated "my forthcoming arrest" in a swank London restaurant. He was picked up at home and police were sent after his wife, who had headed...
...what many a temperate critic has long demanded, what many another within the services has secretly advocated: a full, impartial investigation of U. S. defense needs, method, purpose. Congressmen sensitive to clamor from home had up a batch of admirals (Robinson, Furlong, Van Keuren), gave the wallowing sea dogs hell. So hot was the attack that Minnesota's Melvin Maas was at last moved to say: "When peace times are here we jump all over you and accuse you of just wanting . . . a lot of nice battleships to ride around in, but . . when we are scared and the Navy...
...physical exhaustion. The pilots of the R. A. F. had to make up for lack of numbers by making flight after flight and taking off on new tasks as swiftly as their planes could be refueled and remunitioned. Day and night, from end to end of the Flanders Plain, hell reigned above earth...
...most U. S. sport fans, the name of Hitchcock means America's greatest polo player. To horsemen, Hitchcock also means America's greatest steeplechase trainer. Oldtimers remember well when Thomas Hitchcock Sr., father of Tommy the Poloist, was a hell-for-leather rider himself. A Long Island swell, he learned polo at Oxford, was one of the first ten-goalers in the U. S., captained the first international polo team that challenged England for the Westchester...