Word: bedevilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes, Eldridge Cleaver and-of all people-Richard Nixon. Apparently convinced that he is sincerely trying to end the war and reform the draft, two out of three freshmen expressed respect for the President. But given the capacity of small student minorities to disrupt campuses and bedevil presidents, that vote of confidence in Nixon is unlikely to cause euphoria in the White House...
...amount of industrialization to the region of the combatants in the past nine years, was imperiled, and the area's main lifeline, the Inter-American Highway, was closed down by the fighting. In the wake of death and damage, a legacy of bitterness was created that might well bedevil the two neighbors for years...
Creativity and Catapults. Such human engineering, of course, would stunt the passionate creativity that slow risers now use to bedevil themselves out of bed. One Los Angeles ad man takes a deep draught of vodka, which, he says, tricks him into thinking it's still last night and he's awake and having a good time. The wife of one comedian once baked him out of bed by turning up the dial on his electric blanket. Humorist Robert Benchley's secretary used to wake him up with such snappy lines as "The men have come to flood...
Normally the stuff of detective novels, such conundrums also bedevil scholars attempting to identify works of art whose authors are unknown. No matter how long such a painting has been hanging, the museum director cannot pass it without a worried, questioning glance. Illustrated on the following color pages are four famous mysteries that have resisted every detective effort...
...Nagaland, does not want to be encumbered by a cease-fire in dealing with the rebels if the trouble increases. More troops may well be needed, for some Nagas have reportedly been taken all the way to Viet Nam for on-the-spot observations of how guerrillas there bedevil U.S. forces...