Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...negotiations. At week's end Chiang Ching-kuo had had enough. "The rumors published this week are malicious fabrications," said Chiang Ching-kuo in a written statement that seemed to exclude any likelihood that the Peking Communists would or could deal with him. "Communists are liars and devils. You cannot talk with the devil. It is my ardent belief that to solve the Communist problem, the only way is to eliminate Communism...
regards all foreign aid as the devil's handiwork, greeted the New Year with a renewed resolution not to pay so much as a penny of his 1955 income tax until he gets a Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of "squandering" U.S. tax dollars overseas...
...massacres of 1889, Freedom or Death is a historical novel, but scarcely of the sort U.S. readers usually encounter. The first law of popular American historicals is that history is made in bed. Kazantzakis prefers to write the kind of history that is made among God, man and the devil...
...hardly be blamed. The affair began in 1894, when some secret French defense plans leaked into German hands. The commanders of the French army picked Captain Alfred Dreyfus, the only Jew on the General Staff, to take the blame, and after and absurd court-martial sent him to Devil's Island. Eventually, of course, the novelist Emile Zola came to his aid, with the result that the Captain finally received his freedom and the award of a Legion of Honor for all his pains...
...sudsy question in the novelistic washer: Will the seven-year itch spoil the successful marriage of Tom Forester, boy adman? Author Wallop is noted for his 1954 crystal-gazing novel, The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (later the hit musical Damn Yankees), in which he showed how the Devil, with an assist from a Washington Senator outfielder, could raise hob in a baseball stadium; now he shows how the devil in the flesh complicates family life in the Madison Avenue...