Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wang, playing in the top singles spot, was downed in straight sets by Blue Devil Vanessa Webb, the eventual 1998 NCAA singles champion. It all went downhill from there as the Crimson was unable to pull out a single victory in the match...
When I hear Senator Hatch defending...lawyers of the Justice Department, I figure he has been listening to Sympathy for the Devil a little too much lately. There is another Rolling Stones song that describes what Microsoft does for its customers--a little hit called Satisfaction...[To everyone] who wants to stand between Microsoft and its customers, all I can say is, fellas, You Can't Always Get What You Want...
...innocuous enough statement, although perhaps overmodest, since, according to the newest indictment, the sort of consulting that brought Hubbell hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees from friends of the White House involved so little actual work it could have been done easily from the isolation hole on Devil's Island...
...takes the Gospel According to Matthew fewer than 50 lines to deal with Jesus' 40 days in the wilderness, about double the length of the following un-King Jamesian summary: the newly baptized Galilean retreats to the Judean desert where he is mocked and enticed by the devil; Jesus does not take the bait; he won't turn stones into bread because man does not live by bread alone; he won't jump from the temple tower to prove his divinity because it is forbidden to presume God's protection; finally, he rejects the Faustian bargain--the world's riches...
...other hand he has an iron will. Starved and dangerously dehydrated, he resists the tantalizing bribes of food and water that Musa dangles in front of the keyhole opening in the cliff face where Jesus fasts and prays. Crace's tempter, then, is not a flapping, sulfurous devil, only a man whose demons and unactivated angels are part of his nature...