Word: cunningness
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The board summoned the operators and John Lewis. The operators obediently appeared. But not John. Until he did, the Taft-Hartley machinery was stalled. Cunning John, who hates the Taft-Hartley Act, knew that the longer he delayed, the more the nation's coal stockpile would dwindle, the more...
In Nanking last week China's first National Assembly convened; its 3,000 members will elect the nation's President and Vice President. The occasion, which marked China's precarious transition from one-party regime to parliamentary government, was not without incident. Ten Kuomintang dissenters who were...
Communist cunning decreed that the mu sic of Czechoslovakia be "cleansed" be cause it was in music that the Czech spirit of independence was most likely to break forth.
Cunning. When Bill Boone and his wife enter the story they run off with it. Bill is short, stocky, cocky, with "a good-looking squarish face," now somewhat puffy, always getting in fights, which he always loses. He is an expert with dice, and has a pathetic eagerness for a...
In Manhattan, Publishers Grosset & Dunlap disclosed that they had withdrawn an edition of the Arabian Nights and revised it. The American Jewish Congress had objected to one of the illustrations, and to references in the text to "a cunning Jew." The former text, said the publishers, has been in use...