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Word: devil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Temple's lacrosse team would not be the first top-seeded Owl team to lose in an NCAA Tournament this season. Duke upset Temple and its star Mark Macon in the March NCAA Basketball Tournament in March with great defense from Blue Devil forward Billy King. Harvard will need such an effort from Dermody, Maggie Vaughan, Julia French, and the other defensive stalwarts...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Laxwomen Advance to Semis | 5/13/1988 | See Source »

...when the family members, aided by Jack's doctor, manage to convince him in an overly dramatic end to the first act that he is not actually the god of love, Jack naturally becomes the devil. Of course, Jack as devil conforms much better to the expectations of British nobility than did Jack as god of love. Message: man, or at least members of the British ruling class, is essentially evil in his inability to love, and sanity can be inseparable from insanity. A simple enough concept to grasp, but it takes the play the greater part of three hours...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Delusions of Grandeur | 5/4/1988 | See Source »

Gelinas said that local ministers have suggested that the bombing might be connected to devil worship or witchcraft cults which often use animals parts in their rituals...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Arsonists Destroy Creche | 4/1/1988 | See Source »

Last night, RPI looked like it might escape with a win in the series' opening game, despite the hole it dug for itself early on. Meanwhile, Harvard became the living embodiement of Robert Frost's "Fire and Ice," playing like the devil in the first period and then transforming into Mr. Freeze in the final 40 minutes...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Icemen Hold Off RPI in Quarters, 5-4 | 3/5/1988 | See Source »

...Customs Commissioner William von Raab begs to differ. "Occasionally they swing some poor slob out to make us feel they're cooperating," he says. "But it's nobody close to Noriega." Von Raab condemns the view that a pact with the devil is better than no pact at all: "At some point you become owned by the devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wanted: Noriega | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

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