Word: devilments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nature. At 41, "a tough old chief petty officer" with 22 years service behind him, he knew precisely what he meant to do with that raft. "I was determined to sail it if I could. And I maintain that I did sail it. I worked like the devil to sail it, and I resent anyone's saying we 'drifted.' " Nor did he ever doubt who was boss. "Naturally I was in command. I took an occasion to remind the boys that I, as captain, held absolute authority." When he tried to teach them navigation...
...Devil's Advocate. Today, Author Moore believes the Japanese must be utterly defeated, that "we can no more compromise with them than we can with the Germans." But eight years ago, and for long thereafter, compromise was his only mission. He never ceased to warn Japan's leaders that their army must be curbed, that a clash with the U.S. would be fatal to their country. On the other hand he pleaded their cause against U.S. critics. He could see no reason why Japan should not annex Korea-"a badly governed area" smaller than the American prize...
...want Roosevelt, whom most of them still like 100%, to quit suggesting that drastic steps may have to be taken, and actually to take those drastic steps -to tell Phil Murray, William Green, the spokesmen for the farm groups and all the other minority outfits, to go to the devil...
...just as if someone had turned off a radio, and all Vag could hear was the toy music of the distant phonograph, and the constant purring of the refrigerator. Then Vag remembered what it was he had forgotten to do. He had forgotten to sign for the beer. The devil with it. This one would be on the house. For the first time in two years Vag felt like a guest, and he knew that his host had the most wonderful house in the world, even if it did run on assessments...
...Army is using 108,000 bumpy acres of Texas to practice to beat Rommel. There Army tacticians are trying out new ways to fight tanks with new weapons: World War II's tank destroyers-self-propelled, forward-pointing guns of .75 caliber and up. Army men, giving the devil his due, admit that the guns are inspired by Germany's self-propelled 88s, used successfully by the Germans in Poland and ever since...