Word: devil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...northeast Wyoming, near Sundance, one day last week, Parachutist George Hopkins leaped out of an airplane to win a $50 bet. The problem was to collect. For George Hopkins landed, as the bet prescribed, on Devil's Tower. A lava blister, formed by an eruption 20,000,000 years ago, Devil's Tower is a gigantic rock stump rising 1,200 feet into the sky. Teddy Roosevelt made it the country's first national monument. Its weathered sides are fluted, nearly vertical, practically unscalable...
...they disembarked, Bonesteel's men got a rousing welcome from Brigadier General John Marston's tough Marines: they were barked at (ordinary soldiers are called "dogfaces" by the devil-dog Marines). Once the Army force is established in the camps built during the past few months, General Bonesteel will put his men through general maneuvers alongside of U.S. Marines, British and Norwegian forces. Still in command of all Icelandic troops, including the U.S., is British Major General Henry Osborne Curtis...
...Government officials which for years has urged Chinese rapprochement with Germany. For years Chiang Kai-shek has insisted that China's lot lies with the democracies. Yet if all of Russia falls, Germany and China will be neighbors. Chiang Kai-shek would strike a bargain with the devil in order to save China from the Japanese...
...plugging a face-lifting process. Plugging for fat removal in an ad in the same paper appeared oldtime Shimmy Queen Gilda Gray. Los Angeles police who made a raid on an elaborate, white-tie gambling joint discovered that it was the onetime home of Billy Sunday, the late devil-fighting evangelist...
Briggs Hall . . . where in the devil is Briggs Hall? What's the hour? Five to seven. Twentyfive minuets late and he wasn't even sure how to get to the darn dormitory. Vag half-ran, half-walked across the Cambridge Common toward the Commander Hotel. He knew that was in the general direction of Radcliffe, but his face was flushed from hurrying and his mind was a wastebasket of torn-off thoughts. He couldn't even remember exactly what she looked like. He had danced with her when he crashed the Freshman get-together; taken her out for a cigarette...