Word: bedevilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...likes to drive fast cars ("The M.G. is a fine auto, and besides, it has the right initials"), bedevil teammates with practical jokes, and regale strangers with her schoolgirl knowledge of geography. "What state are you from?" she once demanded of an American passerby on the street in France. "New Jersey," he replied. "Ah," intoned Marielle. "The capital of New Jersey is Trenton." She breaks training for an occasional cigarette or a glass of wine, and already is making plans for a round-the-world trip when she "retires" -after the 1968 Olympics. "I want to make way for youth...
...Another set of moralisms and maxims crops up to bedevil discussion and decision about what is broadly called 'foreign aid.' A good deal of trouble comes from the anthropomorphic urge to regard nations as individuals and apply to our own national conduct vague maxims for individual conduct-for instance, the Golden Rule-even though in practice individuals rarely adopt...
...gross national product from $31 billion to $72 billion. Class feeling is being diminished by the embourgeoisement of the workers, more and more of whom reach a level of prosperity where a four-week vacation and a small car are the norm-although inflation and wretched housing still bedevil them...
...exile campaign against Cuba's Fidel Castro pressed on last week-a war of words, nerves and calculated confusion designed to bedevil and aggravate Cuba's Communists...
Lights & Inner Tubes. But try to catch one. No fish has a greater ability to bewilder, bedevil, confuse and confound a fisherman, and none, pound for pound, fights harder. Because it inhabits exposed tidal flats, the bonefish is a nervous wreck-always on the lookout for enemies, spooking at the shadow of a bird overhead, fleeing in panic from the sound of a beer can being opened. Ever so stealthily, the bonefisherman tiptoes across the flats, taking care not to step on sting rays, his freshly baited hook (live shrimp is tasty) all ready, his eyes peeled for a waving...