Word: cunningness
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After rumblings from correspondents, Lieut. Colonel R. L. Thompson, the Eighth Army's press officer, amended the order to read: "Unwarranted criticism . . ." But correspondents were still unhappy. Echoing the dog in Lewis Carroll's "The Mouse's Tale" ("Til be judge, I'll be jury,'...
The epilogue (on the importance of refrigeration) showed evidence of greater theatrical cunning, reminiscent of Pirandello. Discovered at stage center is a bright red Coca-Cola cooler. Enters a Coke field man, who begins talking about refrigeration. Suddenly a loudspeaker hidden in the cooler's cool interior cries out...
For the Stars & Stripes. But the sump pumps began to throb. On the floor of the House, Mississippi's old Dixie Demagogue John Rankin (D.), leader of many another Treasury raid in the name of the nation's veterans, led this raid with customary eagerness and cunning. He...
As must be expected in a novel by Faith Baldwin, the kitten changes pretty quick to a cunning mouser of men, toys with the poor little critters for 242 pages, and makes her catch just three pages before the end of the book.
Inverse Commuters. The aroused Audubon Society, a dangerous adversary, considered the English sparrow Bird Enemy No. 1, outranking the feral cat and the small boy with an air rifle. Pamphlets blackened the sparrow's name. Said Biologist Ned Dearborn of the U.S. Biological Survey: "The English sparrow among birds...