Word: devil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Item: The U.S., glowing with well-fed satisfaction because it had agreed to supply some of its meat, wheat, fats & oils to feed the world's hungry, learned that, because of the Devil knew what, the food was not being delivered on schedule (see below...
Item: The Army pinned a hero's decoration on an entertainer (see ARMY & NAVY). Did the Army, or the U.S., know a hero when it saw one? Or, barring some hundreds of thousands of combat veterans, who the devil cared...
Item: Natives of Greenwich, Conn., threatened with eviction on behalf of UNO, huddled morosely. On Bikini Atoll, threatened with eviction because of atomic experiments, natives also huddled. The Devil, in either case, might take the hindmost...
...worse: the U.S. might have felt no responsibility, no sense of personal implication, in these devilish complications. But whatever else could be said, the U.S. felt uneasy in its conscience. Americans knew that if the U.S. did not remember its old faith, and act accordingly, there would be the Devil...
...Devil or Saint? No Argentine had been such an international figure as Perón. Few had so dominated the Argentine horizon. The Argentine Who's Who of 1943 did not mention him. Yet two years later his name had become one to conjure with...