Word: devilish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against the highest-flying, swiftest planes, which "could neither see them nor dodge them; they come too fast." The missiles carry proximity fuzes which, during the war, "multiplied the effectiveness of large antiaircraft batteries by five or ten." The fuze, which commands the scientist's awe as "a devilish device," may yet, he thinks, "bring a feeling of relative security to the world...
Polk said last night that he had discovered that Gregory Stakiopoulos, government "finger-man" in the case, was famed as the "Political Barometer of the Balkans"--a "devilish and shrewd" man who in many changes of government had always managed to remain on the winning side...
...novice attempting his first climb, HMC rule-makers have devised a devilish set of directives and frustrations. The experts tell you there's no holds barred, but the man who uses his knee in a climb is roundly booed from below, and the student who grabs the belaying rope for support is hold in disdain for the rest of his days. And you can't walk to a cliff by the back slope, you've got to scale the face. And you can't scale the face the easy way, you've got to climb the barest flattest, most unyielding...
...Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider once more, the universal cannibalism...
...Plymptom squad is knee-deep in danky outfielders. In center, husky, bronzed Juan P. Leapandfall will start if the hone spur on his ailing heel shapes up; Chuckles (XX) Bellylaugh is slated to tend the right garden; and devilish Cocksure will attempt to run the game while patrolling the left pasture...