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Word: devilment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sense, argues Thompson, the astronauts underwent a kind of temporal redemption, much like the one envisioned 34 years ago in C.S. Lewis' theological space fantasy Out of the Silent Planet. In Lewis' novel, the earth is the devil's territory and the prison of fallen man, quarantined by the powers and dominations of the divine milieu around it. But those who escape the silent planet can recover their cosmic orientation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: God, Man and Apollo | 1/1/1973 | See Source »

...Pitt and Duke, on the other hand, Harvard will be decidedly the underdog. Duke's Blue Devil have only lost 15 home games in the last ten years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Hoopsters to Face Yale, Pitt, UConn and Duke over Holiday Break | 12/20/1972 | See Source »

...been outlawed there since 1967 on the grounds that they are "dangerous to the government," but they have persisted as an underground church. Malawi President-for-life Dr. H. Kamuzu Banda, a staunch elder in Malawi's Presbyterian Church of Central Africa, has become increasingly angered by the "devil's Witnesses," their unwillingness to join his ruling Congress Party, their refusal to take loyalty oaths, and their exclusivist claims to religious truth. A Congress Party convention in September demanded that the Witnesses be expelled from their jobs and property, and since then party zealots have been carrying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tidings | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

CENTRAL CINEMA I. King of Hearts, 6:30, 9:45, wknd mat 3:10, Devil by the Tail, 8:15, wknd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge | 12/14/1972 | See Source »

...respect to Widener's age and reputation as a bulwark of books, the place has at least this one uningratiating side. I guess you'd call it just old-fashioned wind. At any moment, the quiet of your stall is likely to be shattered by a god awful, devil-inspired cacophany of thumps, whacks, hisses, wheezes, gurglings and belches. All this gaseous activity fluctuated with the severity of the cold outside. On a bad day, it reaches to a furious pitch. This is not to say that everyone is, or would be, bothered by these arpeggios of steam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WIDENER'S NOISY 'BOWELS' | 12/13/1972 | See Source »

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