Word: cunningness
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The circle began in the '20s. Maxim Litvinoff, who had married a plump, middle-class Englishwoman, set out to end the isolation which the Bolshevist Revolution had imposed on Russia. He delighted and confounded Englishmen with his bluntness, his cunning, his tenacity. At the Disarmament Conference in 1927 he...
Even in the most modern newspaper plants reporters' typewriters are almost always strictly marginal machinery. Hand-me-downs from the business office, or bargains from junk shops, they would not be tolerated one minute by any self-respecting stenographer. When they fall completely apart they are replaced in kind...
NEVER COME BACK-John Nair-Little, Brown ($2.50). After throttling his leman, a London hack writer discovers she possessed the secret code of a traitorous political organization. His immoral cunning helps him quench the national danger and save his own skin after more murders, torture, Buchanesque chases and all-round...
By a glance at these memorials, Joseph Stalin could see Russia's strategic condition. By a glance into a mirror, he could examine in a moment Russia's morale. He would see there two small, tired eyes under heavy lids; bristly upstanding greyish hair; a formidable, determined jaw...
Stalin saw almost immediately that Hitler was a threat. He began a program of house-cleaning and defense building so drastic and brutal that he earned the hatred of most of the world. Even so, the preparations could not go fast enough to keep pace with the meteoric Hitler. So...