Word: helluva
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...this hogwash about Kennedy cresting too soon, or how miraculous Nixon's surge in the last ten days was-or even what a helluva campaign Nixon ran-frankly pains me," said a prominent Republican in Nixon's home state of California last week. "After the performance he put on during the first two-thirds of the campaign, there was only one way for Nixon to move in the homestretch, and that was up." As politicians of all persuasions sifted the election results last week, most of them agreed on one thing: Dick Nixon came out of the Republican...
...Eisenhower plurality of 1,600,000 votes ebbed to a 1960 Nixon deficit of 400,000. "There is a feeling that the best effort was not put out here," said a top New York Republican who is no friend of Rockefeller's. "Nelson will have one helluva time getting re-elected Governor in 1962." The Rockefeller rebuttal: he had given 400 enthusiastic speeches for Nixon, campaigned so hard that he turned ashen with fatigue. Nixon himself held no grudges, believed that Rocky had gone all the way for him-at least after the famous Treaty of Fifth Avenue...
...Thomson encourages this view. He tells risque stories at stuffy editorial conferences, invites everyone to call him Roy, and rides the London underground more often than his blue Cadillac or Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud. Thom son's editors have full rein: "I've got people with a helluva lot more editorial ability than I've got, and I'd be doing them and myself a disservice to inject myself into the papers." Besides, Roy Thomson is too busy peering through his binocular-thick glasses at more good buys on the world's far horizons...
When the blue-yonder airmen first learned that they were to be grounded into train duty, the inevitable cry was, "It's a helluva way to run an air force...
...Maybe,' " says one staffer. "God help anybody who starts to answer Quesada with a speech in explanation for having goofed off. His bawlings-out are fierce. He's no brilliant guy, but what he does have is a helluva sense of duty and principle in public service...