Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vizier's Elephant and Devil's Yard, both by Ivo Andric. Two books-the first, three short novels, the second, a single not very long one-by the Yugoslav author of the powerful novel of tyranny in Bosnia, The Bridge on the Drina. His target is still tyranny, some of it ancient and some, as is clearly legible between the lines, quite modern...
Many of the great criminal lawyers are as famous for their dramatic ability as for their legal skills. But none ever made a courtroom more theatrical than Earl Rogers, a dandyish, hard-drinking, devil-may-care Californian who practiced at the turn of the century. Rogers won acquittals no one thought possible with courtroom antics never seen before-and no longer tolerated in today's courts. And Rogers was, by common consent, the fastest tongue in the West...
...hate than pity for the man in the dock. His was a tale of blackmail, grief, fear and love that moved the lawyer representing the widow of one victim to define the crime as manslaughter, not murder. Added an attorney for the other widow: Stashinsky was only "a poor devil...
Silent Refuge. General Sallal last week seemed firmly in control of Yemen. His coup had originally been aimed at the feudalistic regime of the Imam known as Ahmad the Devil, who, aged 71, died of natural causes in mid-September before the conspirators could kill him. Ten days after Ahmad's son, Seif el Badr, ascended the throne, General Sallal surrounded the royal palace in San'a with 4,000 troops and began blasting away with tank guns. At first, the rebels believed that the new Imam had died in the ruins, but belatedly they learned that Badr...
...mattress, surrounded by fellow officers, adding an occasional cigarette butt to the litter of orange peels on the mosaic floor. Sallal offered a justification of his coup, which turned mostly on reminiscences of the incredibly corrupt and backward rule imposed on Yemen by the gross, 300-lb. Ahmad the Devil...