Word: hell
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...specially trained to stand the pressures of such performance. They carry only one 1,100-lb. or two 500-lb. bombs. These they aim by pointing the plane's nose at the target during its screaming dive. Theory is that 100 such bombs so aimed by 100 such hell-divers could not fail to blast the toughest target...
...Yussel the Muscle" was Joe Jacobs, no kin to Mike. He was not only the most colorful but the smartest manager in the prizefight business. Son of an immigrant Jewish tailor who settled in Manhattan's hurly-burly Hell's Kitchen, puny little Yussel Jacobs had to live by his wits to defend himself against his tough Irish neighbors. By the time he was 16. he commanded so much respect that he managed two neighborhood pugs. Dave and Willie Astey...
Awakener. After two centuries Jonathan Edwards is chiefly remembered as the Calvinist preacher whose accounts of Hell scared New Englanders silly. Biographer Winslow revives his far more important distinction as a brilliant example of the New England mind. A diehard doctrinaire, Edwards originated a revivalist mass-technique and a revolutionary, individualistic concept of religion, thus unconsciously promoted a religious movement known as the Great Awakening. The movement swept away the old theocratic Calvinist dogmas of the Mathers, precipitated the separation of Church and State, paved the way for Emerson's transcendentalism...
...When we got to Boston, a raft of cops were trailing us, and finally they stopped the car. Somebody said to me, 'You better get the hell out of heah,' so I jumped out into the next car. They took me on up to Harvard, that is, I thought it was Harvard, so I went ahead...
...Hell Hell...