Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first, sophisticated Angelenos were horrified by Tommy's rumpled appearance and taciturnity ("I am," he admitted, "the oratorical equivalent of a blocked punt"). But they quickly fell in love with his peculiar, devil-take-the-hindmost brand of football. "We'll try to do the unexpected," he promised, "the things nobody would dream that we'd be stupid enough...
...Bomb," an abstracted menace, to be sure, is close as Flanders & Swann come to confronting the sixties; it is not terribly unlike "The Ostrich," in a fable from their own bestiary, who cools his head in the sand while the world goes to the devil. This is not to imply that we world goes to the devil. This is not to imply that we would have them sing to us of Vietnam or MLF or race riots. They are too droll, melodious, and genteel to be militant -- or even engage -- and evenings with them will always have that reassuring quality...
...indication that the Attorney General's role or opinions will be similar to those of his predecessor. Ball was originally chosen to supervise U.S. policy toward Western Europe, particularly in relation to the Common Market, and in the past few years he has assumed the role of a "devil's advocate" on Vietnam. Since Katzenbach joined the Kennedy Administration in 1961 his views on foreign affairs have not been voiced in public. It is thus difficult to estimate the possible impact of his opinions on Johnson's policies. Still, Katzenbach's lobbying experience as Attorney General and his widely acknowledged...
...savage crossfire of bricks, bottles and tear gas. Allen, a progressive, moderate official who is as protective of Negro rights as he is of Atlanta's reputation, mounted a police car to plead for reason. But no one, it appeared, cared to listen much. Amid cries of "White devil!", the rioters shook the mayor off his perch. Undaunted, Allen waded into the mob, spent the next few hours trying to calm the rioters. By the time they finally dispersed, 16 persons had been injured and 73 were under arrest...
...evidence. There is some justice to the critics' contentions that staff lawyers felt rushed, that there were intense deadline pressures and that every loose-end lead was not neatly tied up. The commission might have prevented some of the current criticism if it had appointed a kind of devil's advocate to challenge evidence aggressively on behalf of the assassin. Many of the complaints against it, of course, concern the inevitable flaws that accompany any juridical proceeding: contradictions, loopholes, gaps of fact and, especially in the case of such a shattering episode as an assassination, some confusion...