Word: cunningness
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Johnson had his Texas Mafia, best known for its authoritative and cunning ability to manipulate others. Richard Nixon's government melded men from both coasts, but his White House staff had a heavy dose of those too eager sunshine boys from Southern California whose fraternity tricks helped produce Watergate...
This is a fact that was more quickly grasped and used by Phyllis Schlafly and her resistance camp than by the feminist insurgents, who were, at first, so busy recruiting for the barricades that they left the main base vulnerable. Schlafly, however, was a good deal more cunning than anyone...
The challenger arrived in the ring first, hooded in a green silk robe decorated with his customary Irish shamrock proclaiming GERRY, DAD AND MOM. Rappaport wiggled beside him, waving an oversize replica of Holmes' championship belt, except with a clockface drawn over the insignia and the words TICK, TICK...
Lebanon was always as sweet and cunning and ancient and beautiful as the world. It was literate, rich, fabulous, chic as Atlantis in better days. No land was ever luckier, more cosmopolitan. If you drove in from the east, out of the deserts of Jordan, Iraq or Syria, Lebanon was...
Nixon's best stroke of comparative public relations has arisen from disclosures that, almost since the invention of recording tape, Presidents have surreptitiously recorded conversations in the Oval Office. Franklin Roosevelt did it. Dwight Eisenhower did it. John Kennedy did it. The new knowledge of such taping has helped...