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Word: beelzebubs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Next day he turned up with two new ones, prepared, if necessary, to smash both to smithereens. The spot he had put himself in was enough to try the patience of a saint, and J. Parnell ("Undoubting Thomas," as the Nation called him) was no saint. But he hated Beelzebub, and he was trying to solve the fly problem with a horse whip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Fade-Out | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...Beelzebub!" he roared at his right-hand man. "Get this unsufferable nitwit out of here. Put a few adders and a serpent or two into his belly to gnaw where the bullets shattered his spine. Then send him back to his hell on earth. . . ." And that is the reason why the conquered people of Europe, the "silent people" who suffer and wait and hope for liberation, first heard last week that Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi hangman, had been killed in Czecho-Slovakia; then, later, that he was not dead but would be hopelessly crippled. Heydrich might still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Heydrich's Inferno | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...hell with Hitler! . . . We restrict the loan for powder puffs, silken scanty panties and cream puffs, when we know the Finns need shrapnel,* buckshot, barbed wire and all the fiercest implements of hell because they are fighting to stop anti-Christ and the hosts of hell led by Beelzebub. ... Let every man stand up and be counted, let him vote as he talks, let us dispense with hypocrisy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: For Finland | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...moments later, when a single objection would have insured a roll-call, neither anti-Beelzebub Mr. Dingell nor any other House member spoke up, and the bill went through on an anonymous no-record vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: For Finland | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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