Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Devil's Advocate, West...
...Consent, Drury (1)* 2. Hawaii, Michener (2.) 3. The Darkness and the Dawn, Costain (6) 4. Poor No More, Ruark (4) 5. The War Lover, Hersey (3) 6. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (9) 7. Exodus, Uris (5) 8. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (7) 9. The Devil's Advocate, West (8) 10. A Fever in the Blood, Pearson NONFICTION 1 . Act One, Hart ( 1 ) 2. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (4) 3. This Is My God, Wouk (2) 4. The Status Seekers, Packard (3) 5. The Armada, Mattingly (7) 6. For 2? Plain, Golden (5) 7. The Longest...
FICTION 1. Advise and Consent, Drury (1) 2. Hawaii, Michener (5) 3. The War Lover, Hersey (6) 4. Poor No More, Ruark (2) 5. Exodus, Uris (4) 6. The Darkness and the Dawn, Costain (7) 7. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (8) 8. The Devil's Advocate, West (9) 9. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (3) 10. Return to Peyton Place, Metalious...
...Devil's Advocate, West...
...mining engineer, finally bought a promising silver mine in Rawhide, Nev. When the vein ran out, he looked around for a job, after due consideration signed on as manager of a rundown cemetery near Los Angeles. One day in 1917, as Eaton surveyed his "depressing patches of devil grass, straggling untidy pepper trees [and] grim granite headstones," he was seized with a thrilling vision of "a great park, devoid of [the] customary signs of earthly death," where the dead might, in the biographer's prose, have "a beautiful passage to eternal life," a place, said Eaton, "where lovers...