Word: cunningness
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Tokyo's big, influential daily Yomiuri (circ. 2,284,902) last week headlined a series of articles on a startling economic theme: "Japan is at the mercy of the blue-eyed foreigners." The blue-eyed foreigners, cried Yomiuri, are U.S. businessmen in Japan, who are charging "exorbitant" royalty fees...
He was "physically awkward"-so much so that he bent every effort to making himself manually skillful, spending hours whipping a rifle to his shoulder in front of a mirror (he became a first-rate shot). Fear of error caused him to develop "an insatiable appetite for tabulation" and the...
RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP, by Commander Edward L. Beach, U.S.N. (364 pp.; Holt; $3.95). President Eisenhower's naval aide, 36, topflight submariner and author of the best account to date of undersea combat (Submarine!), has now written his first novel. It is a war novel, with a vengeance. Ed...
The record now available is complete and coherent enough to show what was not said at the conference table and what was not attempted. The Americans were not frustrated by Communist obstinacy. They were not overborne by the implications of Communist military power. They were not hoodwinked by diabolical Communist...
The customers are not only mercilessly fleeced (watered milk, tapped scales) but also lectured on the virtues of the Germans, the vices of the French, the cunning treachery of the Jews. Papa Poissonard is a happy man: "He had found the means to be systematically dishonest, that dream of all...