Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Minister Ortega warned darkly last week of "the possibility of war" with neighboring Honduras, which he accused of aiding the rebels. Nicaragua also charged that Honduran troops had briefly entered Nicaraguan territory, an accusation that the Hondurans labeled "totally false." Said a State Department official: "The Nicaraguans create a devil outside to increase internal solidarity...
...locked in feverish theological debate with a somewhat astonished Sam Phillips. The intensity is scary and spellbinding, and leaves no doubt about with whom Jerry Lee believes he has cast his lot. "You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be a Christian...
Indeed, periodically seized by remorse over a misspent life, Lewis will still ruminate over making a stand for God. But the devil - the music, and the life that goes with it - always wins out. Shared or not, that fundamentalist faith gives Jerry Lee's music, even to a heathen, the unique power of sin. No smart talk or sidestepping for him. This is the devil's music, and Jerry Lee Lewis plays it with the aplomb of a peer. He may smell damnation himself, but that unholy gift of his has surely secured him a place in rock...
...last time around, and we have a little wine nearly every night. She said she thought voting dry was the Christian thing to do. You see, it's a Bible Belt problem. It's spiritual. You need something to flay like a horse. You need a devil you can identify, say you've seen, and call by name. We call the devil whisky. I wish somebody would do a psychological study...
Williams was also a moral symbolist. His earthy characters journey over a landscape that pulses with the strife-torn dualities of human nature. The duel is between God and the Devil, love and death, the flesh and the spirit, innocence and corruption, light and darkness, the eternal Cain and the eternal Abel. In the American tradition, this links Williams to three 19th century moral symbolists: Hawthorne, Poe and Melville...