Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then, down over the hills will sweep the parching devil winds...
Down over the hills ringing Los Angeles swept the parching devil winds. Humidity dropped below 1% ; it was drier than a desert. The brilliant colors of sumac, greasewood and wild lilac had long faded to dusty brown, and the chaparral crackled and clacked like desiccated bones in a bowl. Then, just before dawn one day last week, the nightmare that Angelenos have well learned to dread happened again. The brush in the hills, ignited by power lines torn to the ground by whistling winds, exploded into flame. With incredible speed, fire raced through the white-collar suburbs of Los Angeles...
...says Calumet Farm's Trainer Jimmy Jones. "You can't run a racing stable on nickel-and-dime pots." And yet, there in the winner's circle, his pudgy face twisted into a gleeful grin, stood Jimmy Jones with Ky. Pioneer, which had just carried the devil's red and blue of Calumet to victory in the Hutcheson Stakes, of all races. The runner-up: Calumet's Kentucky...
...orthodox communist believes that a moralistic social order can actually change human nature; this is felt by the Poles to be stiflingly mechanistic. Is the devil in Joan really an angel? Are the medieval heaven of obedience and the hell of rebellion still valid? The film poses this question in its title...
This life-blighting system has anguished parents, embarrassed teachers and worried doctors, who find the young exam takers suffering from all sorts of mental and physical tensions. Eleven-plus is "the invention of the devil," says the Rev. Arthur Morton, director of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson argues that "a child's future should not be decided by how many butterflies are in the tummy one cold Saturday morning in February...