Word: devilish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night a sacred cow ate my socks." reported Behr. After badgering authorities, he was permitted to visit the front lines. In Jeep and truck, the journey took 18 hours through nearly impenetrable jungles and over narrow, rutted mountain paths up to 13,000 ft. high. Says Behr: "No devilish imagination could ever plan any such testing ground for troops or transport...
...though MHD generators may be simple in principle, they are devilish devices to design, mostly because of the extremely high temperature that must be reached to ionize their gas and make it conductive. Avco does the job by preheating the incoming air that eventually becomes plasma, adding extra oxygen to it, and burning oil with it in a chamber that looks like a rocket engine. This produces a flame with a temperature of 5,300° F. Spiked with a little powdered potassium carbonate to increase the ionization, the flaming stream of gas shoots between the poles of a magnet...
...Devilish God. As it becomes clear that Peredonov will never make school inspector, it is also evident that Peredonov's meanness is not merely savage comic realism but cosmic symbolism. Author Sologub. as a leader of the highbrow Symbolist and Decadent literary movements of the 18905. insisted that the moralistic realism of earlier Russian decades was dead. Art should be mystical, symbolic, fantastic. But in rejecting realism. Sologub rejected the real world too, believing, like the Manichaeans, that physical things are the creation of a devilish...
...Song III is from Franz Kafka's Diaries: This last week was like a total breakdown. . . . The clocks do not synchronize; the inner one chases in a devilish, or demoniac, or at any rate inhuman manner; the outer one goes haltingly at its usual pace...
...Western Allies than at Eichmann. In a 1944 interview in London, Zionist Elder Dr. Chaim Weizmann begged then Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to start negotiations with the Nazis through neutral channels to get the Jews out of Europe. Eden reportedly answered that the "enemy is playing a devilish game," adding vaguely that "moreover, we have to carry America and Russia along with us." In July 1944, Weizmann urged that, as a desperate move. Auschwitz should be bombed in the hope of knocking the gas ovens out of commission. The plea was rejected because of "very great technical difficulties." Nevertheless, during...