Word: demoniacal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazi Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, driving off in a staff car during the Italian campaign, and giving the camera a jolly-good-fellow grin. But at that instant the sun strikes the gold knob of his baton, and flashes across his features a demoniac glitter...
Last week the Trois-Rivières Junior Chamber of Commerce denounced the ban on mixed bathing. Le Nouvelliste, ardent supporter of the church, assailed "the thoughtlessness of demoniac youth." The Knights of Columbus, the Catholic Centre, the Saint Jean Baptiste Society and the Society of Nocturnal Adoration all rallied to the bishop, ignored the fact that when the Archbishop of Quebec, Monsignor Maurice Roy, was Bishop of Trois-Rivières, he held that mixed bathing was none of the church's business...
Medicine's frantic search for a single diagnosis of every case, said Psychiatrist Karl Menninger, turns bacteria into demons and medicine into a demoniac science. Physicians, he said, should think of disease "in terms of the total economics of the personality...
...after she started dancing, Pearl Primus won a New Dance Group scholarship, later studied with Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman (TIME, July 28), who called her "my little primitive," and West Indian Dancer Belle Rosette, who taught her how to freeze her mobile features and saucer-white eyes into demoniac, war-mask grimaces...
...This is not the act of a low lawbreaker," he said, speaking of the strike. "But it is an evil, demoniac, monstrous thing that means hunger and cold and unemployment and destitution and disorganization of the social fabric; a threat to democratic government itself, and it is proper for me to say at this point that if actions of this kind can be successfully persisted in, the Government will be overthrown, and the Government that would take its place would be a dictatorship and that the first thing the dictatorship would do would be to destroy the labor unions...