Word: cunningness
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Cunning Bid. Many small businesses have closed because their owners could not afford to make money. Pop Singer Lill Lindfors and three other vocalists decided not to collect $108,000 in royalties from their recording company; they would have had to pay more than that total in taxes. Lennart Kjelson...
IT IS A battle of women as well as monarchs--Mary Stuart, lovely and dignified in her imprisonment, and Elizabeth I, vain, cunning and as jealous of her rival's beauty as of her pretensions to power. In Mary Stuart, the two roles--the personal and political--are as irreconcilable...
Kilbridge's Business School origins and lack of celebrity status are not per se compelling reasons to question his ability to lead the GSD. But the school has not accepted Kilbridge as its leader for far more substantive reasons: the dean has repeatedly demonstrated an insensitivity to the needs of...
Simpson is weak and paranoid because he has a right to be, Ambler seems to be saying--you need animal cunning to get through these days, and this is Simpson's only virtue. There is no need for the facile theme of having Simpson discover his "manhood" through his experiences...
In this charnel house, the kind of madness that Pasqualino perpetrated on a smaller scale becomes massive. To stay alive, Pasqualino must summon up his last reserves of cunning. In one horrible, hilarious sequence, he tries to worm his way into the good graces of the female camp commandant (Shirley...