Word: devilments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Devil's Breath. If the superstitious Japanese had put any faith in a "divine wind" to drive off the 1945 occupiers as it had driven off Kublai Khan's in 1281, they were disappointed. True, there was a devil's breath of typhoons roaring around the western Pacific - far more numerous than the Allies had expected - but they delayed the occupation of Japan for only 48 hours...
...Minister of Labor George Isaacs, 62. Isaacs, who is a leader of the powerful Trades Union Congress, began his ministerial career by settling a serious railwaymen's strike twelve hours after taking office. A onetime printer's devil, he went to Buckingham Palace for his seals of office in a grey flannel suit, because "I hadn't the time to get myself up all posh...
...know who I love, but the devil knows...
...pressure area, known to weathermen as the "Bermuda high," that usually lies off the Carolinas. That brought southeast winds, dripping with moisture picked up from the hot Gulf Stream and the Caribbean. Annoyed with vagrant Bermuda highs, the New York Times decided that they are "an invention of the devil and should be abolished." But the devil was still at it-keeping green the memory of a long-departed saint...
Catch. In Sheffield, Ohio, a marine went fishing, caught a live pig. In the Mississippi, near New Orleans, the S.S. Amherst Victory weighed anchor, hauled up a four-ton, two-horned manta a four-ton, two-horned manta (devil fish...