Word: deviling
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...many guns, was undertaking last week was not just a bilateral frip-frap over a port called Danzig and a 50-mile wide carpet to the sea. It was, in the eyes of General Smigly-Rydz, a holy war. It was a war to stop the Devil, A. Hitler, before he put horns, cleft feet and an arrowy tail on every good Catholic in Poland. It was a war in which Providence would play a part. "We shall win," declared the Premier, "by the Holy Passion of Our Lord. He will lead us to victory." But before the week...
...rate, if either Joseph Stalin or Adolf Hitler-who have led their countrymen to believe that the other is the devil unchained (but not so deliberately recently)-needed any sales points to make the deal palatable at home, they were available. General belief was that they would scarcely take the trouble. They did not even bother to reveal who had undertaken the preliminaries to the greatest and quietest diplomatic about-face in modern European history...
Claude Pepper, 38, the drawling, slick-haired junior Senator from Florida, had his last word drowned in thunderous cheers when he keynoted for a "third term for Roosevelt's ideals." Josh Lee, the junior Senator from Oklahoma, caused pandemonium by yelling: "Now is the time to unleash the devil dogs of democracy and set them baying on the trail of the Wolf of Wall Street! America, now is the time to unsheathe the sword of human rights! Now is the time to raise the banner of Roosevelt...
...stubborn lad, and all this made him extremely unhappy. His unhappiness may well have a withering effect on Russia's bumper wheat crop. For when Ivan is unhappy, as the Soviet Government learned during 1932, he sits and sulks and watches the grain go to the devil...
When the Government abandoned direct relief, bought the bankrupt sugar plantations and broke them up into homesteading units, matriarchal Rhoda was delighted. She picked out the best tract she could find, then let Adam come and live with her on it. "De only way to get de devil out of dese people," she said, "is to sweat it out. Noodeal's done tried restin' it out, an' it didn't work...