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Word: devil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kennan allows his wit to twinkle. California reminds him "of the popular American Protestant concept of heaven: there is always a reasonable flow of new arrivals; one meets many -- not all -- of one's friends . . . and the newcomer is slightly disconcerted to realize that now -- the devil having been banished and virtue being triumphant -- nothing terribly interesting can ever happen again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fat Pickings | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...Your TV show is currently No. 1. You're starring in a movie, She Devil, with Meryl Streep. You have a book, Stand Up! My Life as a Woman, coming out in August. What's left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROSEANNE BARR: Slightly To The Left Of Normal | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...ingratiate themselves with the devil, the killers boiled the brains and hearts of their victims, mixing the concoction with leg and arm bones and animal heads. So vicious were the devil worshipers that it took two pathologists laboring at a Matamoros mortuary almost four days to complete the autopsies. Several victims remained unidentified, but at least one other young male may have been an American kidnaped from neighboring Brownsville, Texas. Besides Constanzo, authorities sought three other suspects, including the Godfather's companion, Sara Maria Aldrete, 24, a Mexican honor student at Texas Southmost College in Brownsville. Searching Aldrete's home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cult of The Red-Haired Devil | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

Standing behind a portable lectern and using a huge chart that outlined the charges, Keker contended that North, a highly decorated former Marine officer and White House aide, had a defense of "the devil made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prosecutor Compares North to Hitler | 4/19/1989 | See Source »

...this tripe the culmination of several thousand years of man's reflections? Let us all "say `No! in thunder," (Herman Melville) to Mick Jagger's "Sympathy for the Devil." Jagger and pop culture have better things to offer than what has been given to us here...

Author: By Dan Mufson, | Title: Identifying Recent Notable Quotables | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

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