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Word: demonically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Floberg also showed his audience two more new shipborne jets in production-a bat-winged interceptor called the Douglas F4D "Skyray," and a needle-nosed fighter named the McDonnell F3H. "Demon"-and announced that all six planes would be on duty with the fleet within a few years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Planes | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...Hiding Demon. On a University of Illinois scholarship, Bob picked up a master's degree in philosophy, meanwhile began competing under the colors of Chicago's Illinois Athletic Club, and has loyally done so ever since, even though he now lives in California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: High Flyer | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...usual, Bob thanked the Lord when he got the Sullivan Trophy. But lest someone regard him as stuffily sanctimonious, he added: "I don't imply that God is any metaphysical demon hiding behind the nearest cloud, waiting to clutch at me and lift me over the crossbar ... I mean psychological influence, which He exerts over all those who can search their souls and find there the strength to perform wonderful things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: High Flyer | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...return to power were good. Since the close vote of 1950, Labor has clung to office by a fingernail parliamentary majority (at one time as narrow as three). For months, Attlee and his ministers have been watching the gathering clouds of a new economic crisis. The old demon, the dollar gap, is back. The coal mines cannot supply the demand for fuel. Electric power shortages are developing. Millions of Britons face another dreary winter of insufficient coal for their fireplaces. The cost of living is rising toward a new high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Elections | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

...comes back. A lazy, flashy lout, he quickly has Cousin Lymon following him like a puppy. A showdown has to come, and it does: Miss Amelia fights Marvin Macy with her fists, is on the way to winning when, at the last minute, Cousin Lymon leaps in like a demon, on Macy's side. Then the two men leave, after wrecking Miss Amelia's piano, her cabinet of curios and her still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Shy & the Lonely | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

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