Word: hell
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Just Hell...
...South Africa, Boer farmers who snared storks arriving on their annual 7,000-mile migration from Holland, found attached to their legs such messages as: "We inhabitants of Bergen-op-Zoom tell you German occupation is just hell...
Before European hell broke loose, the business of policing the U. S. air waves was fairly simple. With seven eavesdropping monitor stations and 26 field auxiliaries, FCC pounced easily upon illicit transmitters, inspected ship and police radios, supervised the activities of the nation's hams. But since last June, when the President authorized a $1,600,000 fund for radio's defense efforts, aerial gumshoeing put on seven-megacycle gum boots, established a special National Defense Operations Section to supplement FCC's routine monitoring work. Now under construction are four new primary monitoring stations in Texas, Alaska...
...Joshua who made the sun stand still. . . . Now I happen to know more about this subject of sun, moon and tides than I do about anything else. . . . If an outfit that calls itself the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey can do this kind of job, what in the hell is the matter with the United States Army...
...afraid to use language decoratively: ". . . The morning came on swift feet and looked down upon us with astonished eyes!" Nor to ornament his narrative with observations: "Man, in accordance with his gloomy disposition, has far greater power to visualize horror than to visualize delights. Dante's Hell is much more realistic than his Paradise...