Word: devil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Testing her over the mile and three-sixteenths run at Pimlico were two he-horses : the stallion Devil Diver, the gelding Megogo. They should have known from past experience that Susie's soft brown eyes belied her power and drive...
Susie exploded from the starting gate with her wobbly ears cocked forward, her long stride eating up the ground. After just 50 yds., Devil Diver was three lengths back; at the wire, it was six. Megogo was never in the race. Without a single token tap of the whip, Susie had traveled the route in 1:56 3/5 - the identical time set by Seabiscuit in humbling War Admiral in the same race six years...
...veteran Hu Flung Huey oeC, Schmidten with momentary forchodings, "it can't be worse than Fritts. PT says they'll torpedo us, but they'll have to Shew me. I Thom my nose at Secrest of them who aims to Pierce John's smirchless line. Vicario ball through the devil's Zoeller stairs. Navin can stop us. We're not Cowen...
...shelters and subways because they had no homes, while 100,000 workers from all Britain rushed repairs on 800,000 bomb-damaged houses. In Parliament, Tories demanded greater speed, more money for repairs. Said one: "We've got to the stage where Londoners are asking why the devil they should go on taking...
While the monsoon rains beat a devil's tattoo on the elephant-iron roofs of the Southeast Asia Command. Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten returned last week to his headquarters in Ceylon from a visit to London. In Britain he had conferred on measures to be taken when the monsoon lifts in the fall. By that time war materials of every sort can flow from the battles in the West to battles still to be fought in the East. Meantime, the Southeast Asia Command had time for recapitulation and appraisal...