Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very clever job in leaning over backward so as not to give De Sapio the benefit of any doubt...
...character about him. "It never occurs to him that the Oedipus complex really doesn't exist, that it is a piece of moralistic literature. He's as orthodox as your own father, Marjorie, in his fashion . . . making a life's work out of being dogmatic, clever, supercilious-and inwardly totally confused and wretched...
Lord Beaverbrook, Britain's present undisputed No. 1 press lord ("My political belief is a simple one: I believe in Britain's glory"), improved Northcliffe's formula by aggressive, enterprising coverage, and brisk, clever editing. (He still bars cheesecake and leering sex from his papers.) The Beaver's standing order: "Ban the word 'exclusive' from the Express. Our aim is to make everything exclusive...
GENEVA Practical Matters With a combination of subtlety of timing and complete obtuseness to others' reactions, the Chinese Communists released the eleven captured U.S. airmen on the eve of the Geneva talks, as if to get the talks off to a good start. It was a clever trick, for the meeting in Geneva's Palais des Nations had only two points on the agenda: 1) the release of Americans held captive by the Red Chinese, and 2) "other practical matters at issue between the two sides." The Reds seemed not to realize, or to care, what effect Colonel...
Mysteries: "Whoever he is, our killer is both clever and cunning...