Word: devil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese, tardily deciding to reopen the wounds to their feelings, asserted next day that the gendarmes had been mauled by the devil dogs-beaten about the hips and legs with rifle butts, struck in the face, so that they were cut inside their mouths. Colonel Peck, a leatherneck in the classic tradition, stood his ground and flatly said...
...over the soggy Greenwich Country Club links augured well for future intercollegiate tournaments. In the qualifying rounds, stocky, easygoing, Charles Davis of Lawrenceville took the medal with a creditable 36-hole total of 153. In the match play that followed, the gallery was treated to many a pull-devil-pull-baker struggle before long-swatting Bill Goldthorp of Peddie ousted Hill School's redheaded, hot-putting Mortimer Reed, 5 & 4 in the final...
...rids Rugby of Flashman but a reputation for talebearing turns him overnight from hero into pariah. Just as the resulting persecution about convinces Tom and the audience that Rugby is the English equivalent of Devil's Island, his faith in Dr. Arnold, brooding over the school with the promise of a better day, is rewarded...
...Latin America well knew that the stirring giant's plans were directed not at keeping French convicts locked up on Devil's Island but on keeping totalitarian war machines, military and economic-especially economic-locked out of the Western Hemisphere. If Latin America had ever doubted that the U. S. was serious in its plan to set up a giant economic union to control All-American exports (TIME, June 24), that doubt disappeared last week. Before leaving for Hyde Park, the President ordered full speed ahead on the All-American economic cartel, the biggest, most urgent "must...
...army that never stops fighting is The Salvation Army. Because the Army's hot-eyed, autocratic Founder William Booth once asked "Why should the devil have all the best tunes?" Army bandsmen have systematically robbed the devil by piecing soul-saving lyrics to rousing songs. Sample: There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight became Salvation Is the Best Thing in the World. This week ruddy, grey-mustached Brigadier Hubert Edward Burtenshaw of Chicago, dean of the Salvationists' 50,000 U. S. bandsmen, celebrated his 50th anniversary of drumming for the Lord...