Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refused and therefore cannot, enter the Soviet sector any more. "In order to escape the grip of the devil, he would have had to sign a contract to the devil," remarked Liebenau wryly. "He was lucky," he added; "others who have been arrested have never been seen again...
...library are found books ranging from a modern Legomedical Annual, to an 1838 volume on Oddities in London Life. Besides scientific treatises on every thing from strangulation to decapitation, there are Love Stories of Famous Criminals, The Riddles of Sex, and a book called investigation of the Devil, which provides clues to the behavior of criminals and what they can be expected to do in certain situations...
Asked what he thought would be the major issues of the election. Key said that "what will happen--what usually happens is that one party will take one issue and hammer it to the devil and the other will take another and hammer it to the devil The issues will never be joined...
...August, Bonham was in the grip of an epidemic. The cases were all the same: two swift, polio-like attacks followed by rapid recovery. Dr. Risser, a former Army epidemiologist, consulted his medical books, wrote the U.S. Public Health Service that Bonham had been hit by epidemic pleurodynia ("devil's grip"), probably caused by an elusive virus known as Coxsackie...
...qualifying heat of motorboating's classic Gold Cup race at Seattle last week, Driver Orth Mathiot barely managed to make the minimum 65 m.p.h. speed in his blue-grey Quicksilver, a sleek, new, 31-foot hydroplane. Devil-may-care Mathiot, a Portland, Ore. tugboat operator, was not really expecting Quicksilver to win the cup. Neither were Seattle's boat-racing fans, who turned out at nearby Lake Washington to cheer their hometown entry, Slo-Mo-Shun V, which set two records in the first of three final runs -97.826 m.p.h. for a three-mile lap, 91.766 m.p.h...