Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have successfully tried it out, and it has worked," he said then. Now, he no longer seemed certain where he stood. "We do not know what we do." Brown told the House in a voice charged with emotion. "We do not know that we may not be using the devil's means to interfere with the Creator's purpose...
...Devil won handily in the U.S. (61% believed in him), lost in Great Britain (only 34% believed). An overwhelming majority (90% in the U.S., 71% in Britain) believed that Christ was the son of God, but belief was not so strong in a life after death (U.S. 74%, Britain 54%). Fundamentalism was in the minority in both countries. To the question, "Can a person be a Christian and not believe every word in the New Testament?", 66% in the U.S. thought so and 24% did not; in Britain 79% said yes, 11% no. Both countries tolerantly agreed...
...less personal possession with an enduring European flavor is the motor scooter. Vespas and Lambrettas are noisily rampant on the streets of Rome and Venice, and so they are arriving in Cambridge in ever-increasing numbers. They not only attract attention, but impart that desirable note of devil-may-care hardiness when they come abreast complacent, insulated Buicks on Mass...
...scene is laid in Ireland and in old times," and the peasants all around are starving. Two devil-merchants come, offering gold to the poor people for their souls--which seems rather a good idea to most of the peasants, but horrifies the local patron, The Countess Cathleen. She, just returning to her estate after a many year's absence, promptly sends away for grain and cattle for the starving peasants. The devils, who see their lovely valley-full of souls slipping away, steal Cathleen's fortune of gold and tell her that her grain and cattle ships have been...
...some ways the Chihuahua settlers are less determinedly orthodox than the Amish of Pennsylvania. The men wear ordinary straw hats, overalls and work shoes, and the women wear colored homespun (only the older women cling to the black dress). Buttons and zippers are not considered works of the Devil, nails are used in construction, and there are no hex signs on the barns. The men may drink a limited amount on Sunday afternoons. But occasional defectors-young men who tire of the life and marry Mexican women, and Mennonite girls who allow themselves to be spirited off by latter...