Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most British businessmen complain of stock difficulties-the high cost of raw materials, the heavy taxes they bear to maintain Socialist Britain's welfare program, and that old devil, the U.S. tariff. Some Americans, among them ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman (TIME, April 11), hold that this complaint has a sound basis; they believe that by agitating for higher tariffs and trying to thwart British trade, U.S. businessmen are actually working against their own interests. They believe it is up to the U.S. to help British and other European exporters through their troubles by allotting them a larger share...
Suddenly a dark bay colt came charging down the center of the track. The devil's-red silks on his jockey were Calumet's. Ben Jones's long shot, at 16 to 1, caught tired Capot inside the Sixteenth Pole, and won by three lengths. With a pace-forcing assist from Capot, Ponder had won the Kentucky Derby in much the same way his sire, Pensive, had won it five years before-and in identical time...
...Buffalo in the War of 1812, Brown's Kentucky squirrel hunters (under General Gaines) emptied the first two boats so quickly that the others didn't even come in. Brown, says Pratt, had "some ineluctable secret of leadership that made green country boys fight like the devil...
...looks like a picture of the devil...
...Devil in the Flesh. A moving, French-made look at the pleasures and perils of adolescent love; with Gérard Philipe and Micheline Presle (TIME, March...