Word: cunningness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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It is difficult you know, my hosts, after so long of writing to you from such a distance that I can say almost anything I like with the certainty that you will have the hell of a job to prove that I am not making it all up to play...
Ras Imru was said to have raised an army of 60,000, to have spurred Ethiopian patriotism with tidings that the Italians had executed Ethiopian Coptic Bishop Petros. Just as "Gore, Western Ethiopia," was becoming an accepted date line, however, it was discovered to be a fake. Cunning correspondents in...
By the time readers have followed the careers of Dos Passes' characters, studied the sharp, ironic sketches of U. S. public heroes, absorbed the confusion and hysteria of the Newsreels, they are likely to feel that they have received a vivid cross-section report on some U. S. history...
Of more interest to motorists than the bridges themselves was the system of traffic control devised by Engineer Ammann and aides. By means of carefully arranged approaches and cunning underpasses on Randalls Island, all crossovers were completely eliminated from the Triborough, with the result that not a single traffic light...
Nonetheless Geneva's rugged, Calvinist and God-fearing citizens who normally ignore celebrities were at the railway station in thousands at 8:30 a. m. to greet the genuine Haile Selassie with roars of "Vive l'Empereur!". Many turned their plump Swiss backs on handsome young "Tony" Eden...