Word: cunningness
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Known as "Jimmy" to his friends, St. Clair is sometimes also called "the Silver Fox" because of his gray hair, the sly cast to his eyes, and his cunning ways in court. Because he spends extraordinarily long hours researching his cases, he is rarely surprised by the other side. Arguing...
Cranston, a leader of last year's congressional campaign to end American military involvement throughout Southeast Asia, was right when he stated that Congress had "underrated the administration's cunning and determination to go its own way regardless of the law...We must continue to monitor the implementation [of the...
Wilson's strong suit has been his shrewd tactical sense-that of a cunning strategist who knew how to pick his way through, as he once put it, "political traps and minefields." Always a much more complex man than his natural ebullience and everpresent pipe suggest, he provides few...
Once, the President's lawyers had claimed that John Dean, acting as the mastermind of a cunning scheme to conceal his own guilt, had duped all of those powerful aides above him. In its indictments the grand jury has exploded that story, which always had defied logic, and a good...
Died. Murray M. Chotiner, 64, longtime adviser to Richard Nixon; of a blood clot resulting from an auto accident; in Washington, B.C. Alternately good-natured and blunt, Chotiner was a sharp Los Angeles criminal lawyer and a cunning, bare-knuckled politician who first met Nixon during the 1946 congressional campaign...