Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obstacle to "social justice." Said he recently to a big crowd near Bombay: "The constitution is not as sacred as some think . . . These things chain us." To a conference of engineers assigned to river-valley projects he cried: "Now is the time to go as fast as if the devil is on our heels. To hell with the man who cannot keep pace...
Before he begins his sermon, he asks the audience to join him in a short prayer. Then he plunges right into his text. During the sermon, he picks up the Bible again and again, swinging it, slamming it. almost literally hurling it at the Devil. Graham has abandoned his early hyperbole in favor of a strictly scriptural message, brought down to earth in everyday language. He has also weeded out the kind of literalness that once led him to deliver drawing-board specifications for heaven, which, he assured his audience (apparently relying on Revelations 21:16), "is 1,600 miles...
Against Duke, Dawson had little opportunity to choose. Alert Blue Devil defenders covered his targets. But while Duke was busy guarding the air lanes, Fullback Bill Murakowski had room to score on the ground. Just having The Arm cocked, ready to throw, kept Duke's linebackers honest-and kept Purdue in the game...
...first Whig was the devil!" exclaimed Dr. Samuel Johnson in 1778. The good Tory doctor had reason to be vehement, for nothing like the Whig aristocracy had existed in England before. Whig families owned most of the land, dwelt in "homes with 60 bedrooms," gambled away whole fortunes in a night, and lived and governed England with "an animal recklessness at once terrifying and exhilarating." Whig men believed that chastity was a dangerous thing; it gave a man the gout, they said. Fortunately, Whig women did their best to keep the boys gout-free...
About Face. In Fort Worth, after 40 years as a tavern owner, Harry M. Blankenship piled his stock of brew on the sidewalk in front of his cafe, announced as he walked away from it: "I decided to stop working for the Devil and go to work for the Lord...