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Word: devil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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When it comes to delivering babies, many a doctor in a sparsely settled section of the U.S. finds himself between the devil and the deep blue hills. Some patients have so little cash income that if the doctor sends them to a hospital, there is nothing left to pay him. On the other hand, the thought of kitchen-table deliveries fills him with horror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Office Delivery | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...shelter; they would die unless allowed to get out. A high-ranking Turk said bitterly: "A few years ago the Erzincan earthquake caused the death of many thousands. It was Kismet and we bowed to it. This today is not Kismet. This is a premeditated disaster sent by the devil in human form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Premeditated Disaster | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...additional cast of characters is more mysterious: the Total, for instance--"an agent of the devil, sent is punish evil-doers for having done less evil that they should." The Golux is cast in the old mold--his father was a wizard who "often cast his spells upon himself, when he was in his cups...

Author: By John R. W. small., | Title: The Todal and the Golux | 12/1/1950 | See Source »

...could hold them spellbound. Even so, only the more daring of the barefoot set got within range of the flares and banjo music; parents felt that the childish brain should be allowed to age at least as long as good whisky before being exposed to such works of the devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Kiddies in the Old Corral | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

London. His second successful opera, it was based on the legend of a Dutch captain condemned by the Devil to sail the seas until judgment day, unless, in brief excursions ashore every seven years, he could find a woman who would be faithful until death. The ghostly Dutchman finds his woman in the second act, but without giving operatic stage directors much lively theater business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Dutchman Cometh | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

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