Word: devious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smoke & Flame. Near Aberdeen, at the Chemical Warfare Service's Edgewood Arsenal, the correspondents saw some of the Army's devious ways of killing by nonexplosive methods. >Old-type flame throwers sprayed liquid fuel (from canisters strapped to the gunner's back) in a diffused spurt which left the target burning briefly. The Army's new flame thrower squirts a thin stream of an improved fuel, with greater accuracy, over a greater distance, leaves its target burning longer...
...pseudonym for an Englishman about whom the publishers say they know nothing. The Three Bamboos is a novelized version of the history of Japan's famed House of Mitsui (Japanese for "The Three Wells"). It pictures that family as a succession of brilliant, cruel and profoundly devious fanatics, a power in Japan, dedicated for 50 years to a gamble for world conquest...
...Harvard man ought to feel that his contribution to the war effort must be devious and delayed. The civilian is as important as the soldier in this war, and there are enough opportunities for civilian defense work to take up the time of everyone who isn't in the Armed Services. The Harvard War Service Committee and the Harvard A. R. P. Organization need wardens, fire fighters, first aiders, and other workers. The Interceptor Command headquarters in Boston needs volunteers, as do a number of Boston hospitals, which are very short of orderlies. Settlement houses in defense worker communities need...
...failed to graduate! Each class thereafter took in from six to twelve members-no more. Other clubs formed, were broken up by the authorities' raids upon them. Green Bowl escaped, and the only thing secret about it was its exact whereabouts. The room was reached by a devious alley between two houses...
Nasty bit of business: devious Bette, home from driving her purloined husband to suicide, and burning to get out of town, tries to wheedle the cash to do it with from her robber-baron uncle, wins a chuckle from him with the brazen admission: "Guess I'm kill or cure." When he refuses to give her the money, she tries to make the old man drink himself to death...