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...Kansas City, Saloonkeeper Ben Brock summed up the first reaction of thousands, in typical American terms. Said he: "England was hanging on the ropes when Winnie took over. He got them back into the fight. So what happens? The people kick him out. A hell of a note...
...women caught by the recurring minor explosions were burned and blackened, buffeted from wall to wall. Others, trapped behind buckled doors, suffered the hell of smoke and intense heat until firemen got to them. The injured were counted...
...their wild Irish hell-raising, one chronicler wrote: "Champagne corks popped among the section bosses, barrels of whiskey floated the spirits of the laborers higher than the howls of timber wolves in the forests. Lurching between the roaring shacks they showed off their tricks of close-in fighting, western-and highly personal-marksmanship; their excitingly various ways of love-making . . . violent . . . dangerous. Timber-cutters charged down from their mountain camps and raided the effete shovel heavers like Apaches. The shovel-heavers raided back and returned with blood on the ends of their picks...
...equipment Jeffers could understand, but he had no patience with luxury for de luxe sake. When Board Chairman W. Averell Harriman proposed the U.P.'s skiing resort at Sun Valley, Idaho, Jeffers said disgustedly: "The only thing I ever did with snow was to shovel it the hell off the track. Now you want to play with...
Compared with this film, Journey's End, its closest counterpart in World War I, was a sentimental, sugarcoated, flag-waving extravaganza. G.I. Joe deliberately sets out to show that war is hell. It succeeds so well that it may well be Ernie Pyle's most enduring memorial...