Word: cunningness
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Last week, greying, hoarse-voiced, 58-year-old Frank Costello was fast becoming a figure of U.S. legend. Millions of newspaper readers considered him a kind of master criminal, shadowy as a ghost and cunning as Satan, who ruled a vast, mysterious and malevolent underworld and laughed lazily at the...
Stettinius denies that F.D.R.'s health weakened his bargaining voice: the President believed that the U.S. could wean the Soviet Union "away from dictatorship and tyranny in the direction of a free, tolerant, and peaceful society." At best it was a naive hope for a man come to trade...
Born of a very poor family in 1874, Curley's first home was near the city hospital, in the mud-flats of South Boston. It was an environment of native Irishmen, hod-carriers and widow-scrubwomen; a savage place where you had to be tough to be honest and cunning...
Furious, Beaverbrook returned to the Supply Ministry with his figures, called for Franks and asked him if they were right. Franks told him candidly they were wrong. But as Beaverbrook was still reluctant to admit the error to his archfoe, Bevin, he ordered Franks to try to find some way...
Back at the ranch house, Arthur's return lets loose a flood of repressed passion, recriminations and superstitious maundering that Novelist Clark's meager story structure is too fragile to bear. What happens out on the snow-covered range is more successful and easily the most exciting part...