Word: bedevil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With that assurance, Tate &. Lyle went ahead with a new slogan to bedevil the Labor government. Beginning this week, its packages will carry a cartoon showing "Mr. Cube" pointing to sugar pouring from a gaping hole in a sugar box. The caption: "Nationalization will make a hole in your pocket and a hole in my packet...
Late subsistence checks will not bedevil the 3,00 veterans who pass through Mem Hall's portals today, if the Counsellor for Veterans office is successful in pursuing the plan of operations it announced last week...
Late subsistence checks will not bedevil the 450 "new" veterans who register today and tomorrow, if the Counsellor for Veterans office is successful in pursuing the plan of operations it, announced yesterday...
Snailman Heaton fairly glows when he describes how snails have met problems that bedevil many Britons: "The snail may be slow, but it's efficient. It disposes of housing troubles by carrying its house on its back. It lays its own roads by glandular secretion. Above all, being an hermaphrodite, any snail can mate with any other.* Focusing your attention on a snail . . . is a soothing occupation-especially these days...
Susie's most persistent fans are British seamen, who are seldom content with a standby like Danny Boy, but who bedevil her with requests for obscure English songs. Usually she knows them. The sailormen often ask for, and get, what Susie calls "The one about the girl who feeds her lover poisoned eels...