Word: devil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sales to an alltime dollar peak of $63 billion. In civilian politics there was room to swing many a cat. Strikes, political revolts, administrative squabbles, and all the luxurious bickerings of individuals testified to the lack of war pressure. In fact, war tensions seemed only to have increased the devil-take-the-hindmost attitude. Advertising space was so spangled with waving "E" pennants that it looked like a crowd coming away from a football game...
...Sups with the Devil. But the proclamation was something more than propaganda: it was a clue to Hitler's strength even in despair, a testimony to his sense of oneness with the German people (always excepting those whom he has confined, abused, murdered). Its awkward rationalizations might seem absurd to free Britons and Americans; they did not seem absurd to Germans who remembered, with Adolf Hitler, the penalties of defeat in World War I, and who now suffered the agonies of defeat in the skies...
...What the devil do you want them for?", asked Lieut. Pershing...
...shoot, though the French clucked. The French depended on hand grenades. He was more than ever the spit-&-polish disciplinarian. To his officers "Black Jack" (the nickname he picked up when he was with the Negro loth) was God. To the enlisted men he was both God and devil. Some remembered him striding across a muddy field of France with his face hard and his uniform immaculate. Others remembered him as "that sonuvabitch [who] roared past our column in his big staff car, spattering every one of us with mud and water from head to foot." He traced the successive...
...Faith in the Devil. Church attendance was obligatory for members of the royal household. "One Sunday the minister [at Balmoral], Mr. MacGregor. preached on the devil. Afterwards he asked Princess Louise whether the Queen liked his sermon. 'She said she ... should think not, as the Queen did not altogether believe in the devil.' " Said the Rev. Mr. MacGregor: "Puir body." Even more amusing is the story of wealthy, eccentric