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Word: deviled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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that they beat to death a pretty teen age girl while trying to exorcise the devil from her body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Switzerland: Beating the Devil | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...died, "and if I cannot have a friend, I would like at least to have a cat or a parakeet to whom I could talk." At the time, not even her family would talk to her any more because they believed her guilty of "Teufelsbuhlschaft," or coupling-with-the-devil. Her tormentors considered this an act so evil that excorcism by prayer was useless. The devil had to be flailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Switzerland: Beating the Devil | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...Singen, Germany where Bernadette lived after 1962, and a Swiss mountain retreat, where she lived her last days as a virtual prisoner. Under the pressure of "Mother" Kohler's morbid sexual curiosity, justified as "looking into souls," the girl wrote hundreds of pages of grotesque "confessions": the devil visited her several times a day; he had walked beside her, his black fur glistening, at Holy Communion and often made love to her; he had promised her she could have ten sexually diverse husbands and rule the world with Satan. After months of piecemeal punishment, Bernadette's Calvary finally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Switzerland: Beating the Devil | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...could anyone hope to succeed with a picture about a male-virgin college graduate whose only politic problem was turning off Mrs. Robinson? This is an age dominated by science, which prides itself on being free of superstition; who would have thought that a story that takes the devil seriously could become a smash? Yet Rosemary's Baby was not only a bestseller as a book, but already ranks among the top 50 alltime movie hits. The Graduate has become the third largest money earner ($40 million) in movie history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Moonchild and the Fifth Beatle | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...Parsons managed to keep his client alive for seven years after conviction in a day when appeals were hard to come by. As for his defense of Sirhan: "It won't be the first time I've defended someone free," he says. "There's a poor devil in trouble, and that's enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Priceless Defenders | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

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