Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very vehemence of the attack contributed to the success of Nixon's cam paign : the hard-working young man who represented Ike to the bulk of the American people seemed not at all like a devil with horns. And neither did he turn out to be the liability that Harold Stassen had predicted. Stassen had said that polls showed that Nixon would lose the G.O.P. 6% of the votes-and thus the election, since Ike got 55% of the vote in 1952. But in 1956. with Nixon at his side...
...turned full on. Writers, too, have need of others, of the comforting arms of the public; but the artist's independence of stance, his solitary, separate-table vision, is his one source of lasting power. For him not to sup alone is almost certainly to sup with the Devil...
...last twelve months, overall industrial prices have jumped about 4%, to a peak 123 (1947-49 = 100). "It's as if we all sat down together-which we didn't-and decided to raise prices," says one appliance-company executive. "It's that old, old, devil inflation. Starting with the steel price rise, a spiral has started throughout industry. We've already soaked up two or three cost increases. We just had to pass this...
Bunyan thought that he was writing only the story of a man named Christian who surmounts the countless snares and obstacles of the Devil in his long journey from mortal ills to God's Promised Land. In reality, according to Author Harding, Christian's journey "is an expression of the archetypal pattern of the search for wholeness common to all humanity . . . the journey everyone undertakes when he embarks on a psychological analysis...
...most, Conductor Serafin. Her complaint: he recorded Traviata with another soprano. Her decision automatically eliminates Serafin from his old job as conductor for her opera recordings and the old man is finding that other singers are now mysteriously unable to sing under him. Says he: "She is like a devil with evil instincts." Says La Callas: "I understand hate; I respect revenge. You have to defend yourself. You have to be strong, very, very strong. That's what makes you have fights...