Word: hell
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...January 1939, with no apparent hell-raising intent, good Mr. Logan introduced an eighth version of his old bill to set up uniform standards of procedure for quasi-judicial Federal agencies. He had long felt that bureaucracy's big ears needed pinning back. Franklin Roosevelt, acting on similar motives, set up a committee in February 1939. under Law Expert Dean Acheson, to study the same problem. The Brookings Institution pondered; bar associations brooded...
...they could still make it hot for submarines. Also they were invaluable for training. Each one was a ship where a young lieutenant commander could learn the unforgettable lessons of his first command. On each one of these pitching, rocking sea horses, bluejackets could learn the strange, good-humored, hell-for-leather technique and attitude of the destroyerman; young officers, at duties on deck and below, or hanging to the overhead in wardroom bull sessions, could become Navy-the good, hard...
There were those aboard who felt that the British simply hung a lot of mines to submerged moorings and got to hell away from them as fast as they could, hoping that nothing but an Axis vessel bumped into them. Before sighting the harbor, we had been in a brief "blow" and it was during this time that it was feared that some of the mines might easily have broke away from their moorings. ... I never did find out whether the harbor was actually mined...
...concerned, TIME can go to hell. In the words of the hero of The Man Who Came to Dinner, "I am about to vomit" every time I read your super-emotionalism, your putrid cliches. . . . I do not consider any money being so wasted as my subscription to your literary and intellectual enigma...
When would U. S. capacity be great enough to meet any defense task? The soonest possible date was late autumn 1941-ten months. Many men believed Hitler would try for a knockout of England in April. Between Hitler's April and America's October stretched a hell-to-pay period that no man could foresee, and that few cared to contemplate...