Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moscow last September West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer made a bargain. Longtime traffickers in human souls, the Communists offered to ship some 10,000 prisoners of war home to Germany, if Adenauer would accept one Russian. Like Faust's bargain with the devil, the deal was calculated to make...
...Villa Hentzen, onetime home of a 19th century Cologne millionaire, on the west bank of the Rhine opposite Chancellor Adenauer's home. But a mile upstream he had carpenters working feverishly, repairing an old hotel for his staff of 45 Russians, who are also part of the devil's bargain...
Much of Wichita's musical revolution was achieved by Symphony Manager Alan Watrous, 55, who believes that a community must grow its own culture ("I hate that word, but what the devil else can you call it?") rather than buy it outside. A violinist and onetime music teacher, Manager Watrous has a special culture-growing formula: get the symphony and school system to work together. A string quartet of symphony players gives 80 concerts a year in schoolrooms. Twice a year, the orchestra plays student concerts at the rate of four a day-no buses shuttle one crowd...
...whale the daylights out of the cats. They whined and shrieked like an infernal pipe organ. I would pause for a while and repeat the operation-first a cough, and then a thrashing. I finally noticed that even without beating them, the beasts moaned and yelped like the very devil whenever I coughed. I then let them loose. Thereafter, whenever I had to eat off the floor, I would cast a look around. If an animal approached my food, all I had to do was to cough, and how that cat did scat...
...James ("Scotty") Reston, more often a critic than an applauder of the Administration, ventured no prediction, but concluded three pro and con articles on "The Big Question" with more cons than pros. Reston reasoned that none of the President's most trusted advisers would want to play the devil's advocate in urging Ike not to run. Stepping into the breach, Reston listed nine reasons why Ike should not run, against six for running...