Word: deviled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Waterfront. Yet the former college boxer's pugnacious manner suits his controversial role in business. Kerzner, 48, is southern Africa's casino king. In a country so morally conservative that movie theaters are closed on Sundays and Playboy magazine is banned as the work of the devil, Kerzner has succeeded in assembling a $270 million hotel chain featuring gambling casinos, show business superstars, topless chorus lines and soft-core porn movies...
...West Germany's feline population, were killed last year alone. According to Dr. Erwin Muermann of the Bonn Cat Protection Initiative, the present epidemic of cattiness may have its roots in a 15th century bull of Pope Innocent VIII. It declared that cats were possessed by the devil, says Muermann, and caused 100,000 women who owned cats to be burned at the stake-accompanied, of course, by their pets...
...devil's language" is the description generally attributed to St. Francis Xavier, the 16th century Jesuit missionary. Others have seen in the intricacies of the language a major influence on Japan's intellectual and artistic styles, even on its basic national character. Yet sympathetic observers also believe that the language may represent a serious obstacle to Japan's functioning as a world power. According to former U.S. Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer, "Japanese ideas are transmitted abroad only very weakly and through the filter of a few foreign 'experts'. .. Japanese intellectual life for the most part...
...dead"; "The used key is always bright." Emerson thought proverbs "the sanctuary of the intuitions." Tolstoy's knowledge of common tradition led him to an encyclopedia of wisdom. Eastern European sayings have always assumed the clarity and force of vodka: "Where the needle goes, the thread follows"; "The devil pours honey into other men's wives"; "The Russian has three strong principles: perhaps, somehow and never mind." In the epoch of the Romanoffs, wisdom was the only thing that was shared equally. Cossacks who conducted pogroms and victims in the shtetls flavored their remarks with the same sour...
...made the point that Lebanon had no alternative but to accept the agreement if it wished to get Israeli troops out of the country. Nonetheless, the vote drew sharp rebukes from Syria. Damascus Radio declared that Lebanese deputies who voted for the agreement had "sold their country to the devil." Perhaps coincidentally, shooting subsequently broke out in the northern port city of Tripoli in a renewal of fighting between Sunni Muslims and Syrian-backed Alawite Muslims...