Word: devilish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much of his book limning the critics of left and right who pelted the Administration. Some of them Roosevelt could shrug off; others were far from laughable: Father Coughlin, who described himself as "a religious Walter Winchell" and believed that all bankers were devils and Jewish bankers the most devilish of the lot; Dr. Francis Townsend, who proposed to give every oldster over 60 a pension of $200 a month with the proviso that he spend it within the month; Huey Long, Louisiana's "messiah of the rednecks," who, in a rare moment of insight, called himself "a wedded...
...week's seminar countered with a charge of Adam-teasing. Complaining of the girls' gauzy saris, low-cut cholis (blouses) and flimsy salwar (trousers), a student cried: "There is always too much visible." Conceded a Lucknow University coed: "At times we also tease boys." And for sheer devilish ingenuity, few Eve-teasers could match the New Delhi girl who telephones males at random, starting conversations that are hard for many an innocent husband to explain. If a wife answers, this Adam-teaser hangs up with the shocked cry: "He never told me he was married...