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Opponents call Adenauer foxy, and he is cunning. A more important characteristic is his stonewall immovability, once he is convinced. By refusing to budge an inch in argument, the stonewall Chancellor has worn out general after general of the Allied occupation armies, and sometimes as many as two or three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Ja or Nein | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

W. L. CUNNING

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 3, 1953 | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

McCarthy's dubious service to the 22% who needed his tutelage accounts for less than half the McCarthy myth. The rest of it was supplied by the New and Fair Dealers who set out to prove that this cunning opportunist was the reincarnation of Torquemada, Huey Long and Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: McCARTHYISM: MYTH & MENACE | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

Behind the grey façade of the House of Unity in East Berlin's Karl Liebknecht Platz sits the Politburo of 14 men who rule East Germany on orders from the Kremlin. From their conference room last week came pronouncements which launched a new and cunning Soviet maneuver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Warm Front | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

Cardano usually won and people hated him. His expertness at cards and craps was not the only reason, for he readily admitted to being "cunning," "crafty," "sarcastic," "impertinent," "grudging," "envious," "treacherous," "miserable," "hateful," "lascivious," "disagreeable," "rude," "obscene," "lying," "obsequious," "irresolute," and "indecent." But he hotly denied being a bastard. It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cinquecento Crapshooter | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

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