Word: deviled
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...devil grip the whey-faced slut by the hair...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...