Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week the President sent his tax message to Congress. It was by no means all the devil's work. In asking Congress for $1 billion in additional taxes, Harry Truman did aim a pitchfork jab in the general direction of big estates and corporate profits. To another section of business he was kind: he called for reduction of the whopping wartime excise taxes on such items as plane, train and bus travel, freight shipments, long-distance telephone calls, cosmetics and handbags...
...half day of Chambers' seven days of testimony at the first trial, ceaselessly tapping his fingers, and through one day of Chambers' testimony at the second. He had read some of Chambers' undergraduate writing, some of his translations, book reviews and an essay, The Devil, in the Feb. 2, 1948 issue of LIFE. Now, fortified with this research and his psychiatric training but without ever having talked to Chambers (unnecessary, he said), Dr. Binger sat and listened while Hiss's attorney Claude B. Cross read, as part of one question, a selection of the most damning...
...Devil. This year, the Rev. Bill heard another call. It came in, strong and clear, from Oklahoma's political vineyards and it said that he should run for the U.S. Senate, opposing Oklahoma's bumbling old Elmer Thomas in the Democratic primaries (also likely to seek the seat: able Democratic Congressman Mike Monroney). Bill Alexander considered his position. As pastor of one of the wealthiest congregations in the state and as one of the most popular lecturers in the Southwest (he owns his own plane to keep five to eight lecture dates a week), he earns about...
...known that his decision would be announced in his Sunday sermon after he had knelt for six hours in solitary prayer to wrestle with the devil of indecision. The Rev. Bill prepared a publicity handout explaining his problem and what he planned to tell his congregation. "These last few weeks," he said, "have been the most difficult of my life . . . The threat of dirty methods has not been an important factor in my final decision. From rather good authority, I have been informed that whispering campaigns were already being planned, such as: 'society preacher,' 'gambling preacher...
...Pleasant Devil. When the devil, in the guise of a pleasant-mannered guide named Ransome, offers him "freedom from guilt, freedom from sin," Wallis refuses. He has come to realize that only by remembering "every little petty lie, every deceit, every shame, from the first to the last," can he expel his torment of guilt and find...