Word: cunningness
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From the time he started to work at the age of five, Willie Moretti kept his eyes peeled for the fast buck. His first job with a Harlem milkman paid 25? a week. Later, as a teen-ager with plenty of savvy, big-city cunning and a marked talent for...
At Madeleine's trial, therefore, the jury must balance her character against the Frenchman's. The prosecutor tries to convince them that Madeleine was sufficiently cunning and ruthless to have committed the crime, while the attorney for the defense raises the suicide theory.
Some of the mysteries, Altick admits, have been solved more by chance than by special cunning. Biographer Mason Wade unearthed the Western journals of Francis Parkman by going to the historian's old home in Boston and rummaging through his desk. Usually, however, the scholar's quest takes...
Wu's Speech. The U.S., he said, is the historical foe of China: "The American imperialists have always been the cunning aggressor . . . never . . . the friends of the Chinese people . . . The Open Door was in fact an aggressive policy aimed at sharing the spoils with other imperialists."*
Through Defeat. All of Mao's cunning in guerrilla tactics could not save the first Chinese Red army. By 1930 it had grown to 60,000 men. Then Chiang, advised by a German, General Alexander von Falken-hausen, closed in with overwhelming numbers. Five years of dark and bloody...