Word: ciceroism
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...Nazis such top-secret documents from the British embassy in Ankara as the minutes of the Moscow, Cairo and Teheran conferences, and plans for Operation Overlord (the Normandy invasion). Ironically, the Nazis made no use of the information for fear that Diello, who operated with the code name "Cicero," was a British plant. Most of the ?300,000 paid to him by the Germans turned out to be counterfeit. Cicero finally disappeared without trace,* while British and German agents played hide & seek for his hide...
...producers of Five Fingers have added to this true-fantastic tale a number of fanciful touches that detract from the unadorned facts. The picture gives Cicero (James Mason) a beautiful, double-crossing Polish countess (Danielle Darrieux) as his partner in spying and smooching, and has him ending up in a luxurious South American hideout. The film also drags in a few standard cinematic suspense props, e.g., a charwoman accidentally sets off the alarm which Cicero has disconnected while rifling the embassy safe...
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...first big expansion, with $1 5 million borrowed from G.E., was to build an electric-range plant in Cicero, Ill. to turn out 600,000 ranges a year. He spent another $11 million buying and retooling a surplus war plant in Milwaukee to turn out hot-water heaters, but with the Korean war, used it to land Hotpoint's first big defense order for turbo superchargers. With a Government tax write-off, Hotpoint expanded the plant, now makes both turbo superchargers and hot-water heaters. Nance had also begun a new $20 million plant to make refrigerators when...
...Cicero could be considered "a conniving lawyer" as well as a great statesman: "Many of his works represent professional law at its very highest. But it's rather unfair to ask a professional lawyer to present the whole truth and nothing but the truth, because that isn't what he is supposed to do . . ." Homer suffers equally from misrepresentation. "He's really very witty," said Highet, "but has he been taught that way? He's always presented straight-faced...