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...modern times, Catholics and Protestants generally kept up a lively acquaintance with the Devil. The 16th century Catechism of St. Peter Canisius mentions the Devil more often than it mentions Christ. Martin Luther thought of Satan as a very personal antagonist-one real enough to hurl an inkpot at, as legend...
According to native superstition, the trouble began in Sacred Crocodile Lake, where, 60 years or more ago, King Mwanga used to hurl human sacrifices to feed the beasts. Mwanga thought the crocodiles embodied the spirits of his ancestors, but after his death an enlightened colonial government put the beasts on a diet of fish. Later, the government cleaned them out of the lake altogether-or thought it did. But last week, an alert game warden discovered one little four-foot croc still in residence. Ah, said the natives, old Mwanga himself. A hunt began, and the little croc vanished...
...Stop. Like most top hockey players, Richard is a tough, combative cyclone, who has been known to hurl his stocky, 180-lb. frame toward an enemy goalie with two defensemen hanging from his broad shoulders. What's more, he has scored from just such entanglements-a knack that makes Richard a perpetual target for roughhouse treatment. Says Montreal Coach Dick Irvin: "Never in the history of the National League has a man been subjected to such abuse-or perhaps I should say, attention-from the other teams. They say: 'We have got to go out and stop this...
...fact was that astonished young (28) Concertmaster Alfred Bruening caught a flying baton in the face. The mystery: Did the baton just slip out of Halasz's hand, as Halasz claimed, or did he hurl it, straight and true as a javelin, as the outraged concertmaster afterward charged...
...food didn't suit him, Vasily would hurl it on the floor, stamp out, and roar away in his plane to stunt off his anger. He drank brandy and vodka in gulping draughts from breakfast until bedtime. The base soccer team, the Stalin Commandos, either in victory rode the dizzying crest of his pleasure or in defeat the depths of his displeasure...