Word: deviled
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...next day, July 1, north of the town. That night the Federal troops, driven south through the village streets, dug in on a strong hook-shaped line on Cemetery Ridge. Lee's army followed, and during the next two days in fierce fighting at Little Round Top, the Devil's Den, the Wheat Field, Peach Orchard, Gulp's Hill, Spangler's Spring and other positions along the Union line, tried unsuccessfully to dislodge the Northerners. On the afternoon of July 3, Major General George E. Pickett led 15,000 Confederates on a gallant but ill-advised...
...Beat the Devil. John Huston and Truman Capote tell a completely wacky shaggy-dog story; with Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones (TIME, March...
...Glory be to God!" cried Preacher Poole into his microphone. "Pray for Sam Bell. Save Sam Bell. The Devil can only go so far. There'll be no jukeboxes in heaven." The faithful groaned and flung themselves to their knees; their own amplifiers rushed to meet Satan over Saunders Street with a full-throated Leaning on the Everlasting Arms...
...Beat the Devil. John Huston and Truman Capote tell a completely wacky shaggy-dog story; with Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones (TIME, March...
...contempt for the lady's dull husband ("He hasn't a scrap of poetry in him"). The lover has just whispered: "Let us make love tonight-as never before," when he notices that the elevator is going "down and down interminably." It does not stop until the Devil ("stylishly dressed in tails that hung on [his] hairy top vertebra as on a rusty nail") opens the grille and leads the lovers into a hellish hotel bedroom. Wine is brought them by a very "stern, very grave" waiter with a bullet hole in his temple: he is the lady...