Word: cunningness
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John Barnes' biography amplifies the papal declaration. Peronist power was founded on a simple principle: Take from the rich and give to the poor, then take from the poor. Just after World War II this was not difficult. Argentina was fat with hard foreign currency from its exports of...
Apartment hunting in many cities has taken on aspects of stalking big game. First there is the uncertain trek through the wilderness of newspaper classifieds, riddled with bait-and-switch ads for apartments that were just rented, sorry. There is the patient wait for the quarry, an exercise in stealth...
The second stake was the role of the Communist Party (C.P.). It had been in a political ghetto since 1947. In order to come out of it, its strategy, for many years, has been the formation of a Popular Front with the Socialists and the small Left Radicals. The Common...
Gore Vidal cannot wait. His latest novel is an apocalyptical extravaganza that craftily combines feminism, homosexuality, mysticism, science fiction, fiction science, the second law of thermodynamics, the first law of survival, high fashion and low animal cunning. The plot is diabolically clever. Theodora (Teddy) Ottinger, the world's leading...
Old World naturalists believed that the newly discovered land to the west was inhabited by spiders the size of cats, beasts more cunning than anything in mythology, and plants capable of curing most of the ills that befell man. The field naturalists who began studying North American flora and fauna...