Word: deviled
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...That (1929), an autobiography that survives rereading with its old pleasures and astonishments intact. There was, for example, the official report that Graves had died of wounds when, in fact, he was recovering. Remarked Siegfried Sassoon, a greatly relieved comrade-in-arms and fellow poet: "Silly old devil... he always manages to do things differently from other people...
...abductors were members of a freaky religious cult, and included its leader, Lindberg Sanders, 49, an unemployed construction worker. Besides refusing to eat pork or drink water, they believed police to be agents of the devil. After 30 hours of futile negotiations, the authorities surrounding the house became convinced that Officer Hester had been murdered. Six members of TACT (for Tactical Apprehension Containment Team), stormed the dwelling, and in the ensuing struggle all seven cultists were killed. Hester was found inside, badly battered and dead for several hours...
...house in a working-class black neighborhood last week, they had no idea that seven members of a fanatical religious cult were waiting for them inside. Led by Lindberg Sanders, 49, a self-styled "black Jesus," the Bible-reading cultists considered police to be agents of the devil. Some 30 hours after the police visit, eight people lay dead, including a patrolman who had been held hostage and then beaten to death...
...meanwhile, began monitoring sounds in the house with boom microphones. Later that night they also moved a TACT force (a local SWAT team) into the area. Early Thursday morning, police at the listening devices heard Sanders say, "My daddy's dead, my brother's dead, and the devil's dead." Assuming that the "devil" meant Hester, police stormed the house with tear gas and gunfire. Within minutes the firefight was over. Hester's battered body was found just inside the door, with his arms handcuffed behind his back. Outside the house, several officers wept. One complained...
...Hanni, my love-you whore, you dirty bitch, you devil, you trashy wench, you poor darling sweet saintly Hanni!" Xaverl Bolwieser (Kurt Raab), a Bavarian stationmaster, has every reason to curse and care for his wife Hanni (Elisabeth Trissenaar). She sets his nights ablaze with her Lorelei beauty and passion, but she doesn't really love him. She loves making love, and so she exercises her power in one of the few ways open to a woman in 1920s Germany: by becoming an entrepreneur of lust. Promiscuous as a prancing stud, possessive as any hausfrau, Hanni drives "Fatty" Bolwieser...