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...setting sun painted one last patch of sky a peaceful, soothing yellow. A Marine chaplain standing on the ridge with me looked first at the sunlit sky in the west, then back at the smoke and fire around us. "Heaven on one side," he said slowly, "and hell on the other...
...They don't like airbursts, and I don't blame them," the general said, peering through his glasses. "In the last war the Germans got me under airbursts and it scared the hell...
...general was silent on the way to his headquarters. When he got there he walked unwillingly toward his desk. The desk had a pile of papers on it. Gay looked at them with distaste, plunked down his helmet. "I've been having myself a hell of a time," he said as if to himself. He looked at the papers and added: "But I guess that's the sort of thing generals ought not to be doing...
...Dreadful Hell. The author, scholarly Anglican Rector Herbert A. L. Jefferson, 60, ascribes England's lag in hymnody to the influence of Calvin, who limited congregational singing to hymns provided in the Scriptures, i.e., the Psalms. Metrical versions of the Psalms were prepared and set to popular airs. Queen Elizabeth referred to them slightingly as "Geneva Jigs," but she approved them for public worship. The results were sometimes inspiring, sometimes not. Example, from Psalm...
There is a dreadful hell...