Word: helluva
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...Germans and Russians weeded out the poorly trained by letting them get killed in combat. He feels the weeding out should be done in rigorous training." Adds one of Radford's officers, with a different perspective: ''He impressed pilots that there was a helluva lot more to flying than flying. There was thinking, for example...
...made a helluva talk-without notes," said one participant. "And his biggest contribution was tying all this into one thing, showing that you simply couldn't expect to push down trouble in one place and not expect it to pop up somewhere else." The result for Radford was that Ike forgot the old feuds, decided to jump Radford all the way to replace the retiring General Bradley as J.C.S. chairman. "If Radford will work for the country as hard as he worked for the Navy," Ike told his colleagues, "then he'll do a fine...
...coming safely through his political crisis over Suez, Britain's economic day of reckoning is still to come. "It's easy enough to rally the roast-beef opinion of the country," said one disillusioned Tory last week, "but the fact is, we're in a helluva mess. We haven't a shred left in the Middle East, and not much anywhere else...
Comfortably sipping a victory martini out of one of his galley's plastic cups, Skipper Geib sounded off with pride, "This is a helluva boat," and flung a challenge to the current hot boat on the saltwater circuit. Bermuda Racewinner Finisterre. Said he: "What with Finisterre and Figaro, a lot of people are saying that the day of the keel boat is over-that the centerboarders are the new thing. I'd like to see Finisterre come out here and race on the Great Lakes. I think we could give her a run for her money. Sure, bring...
...Mickey was not to be stopped that easily. In 1938, he sued the Lampoon for libel and threatened to tear down their Hearst-bequeathed edifice and install Benny Jacobson in its stead. He's a helluva lot funnier than the Lampoon anyway," he said. Along more "serious" lines, the Dude introduced a bill into the council to strike the words "Lenin" and "Leningrad" from all Cambridge library books. Eddic proudly tells anyone who will listen how his father predicted the "notorious spread of Marxism in the University...