Word: cunningness
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"You have with the caustic wit of your public utterance stripped the coverings from the stupid pretensions and the cunning treason of both domestic and foreign enemies of the people.
Most important and immediate was Priorities, where nearly every crime against common sense had been committed. The long months of priority mismanagement had resulted in the U.S. turning up a magnificent pile of shortages. Here the Rosenman-Roosevelt plan displayed great cunning and foresight. Donald Nelson was also given the...
Three days later, Wheeler made a full-dress reply in the Senate. He declared that the President had "joined the wolves of war in their slanderous attack," that Stimson " with deliberate cunning . . . created the utterly false and spurious impression that I had circulated this franked card principally among selectees. . . ."
Two books appeared in the U.S. this week which may be copiously quoted before 1941 is out. One is a horror Baedeker to modern Poland, the Polish White Book (written in French), the other is The Spoil of Europe (Norton; $2.75), by a man with the pseudonym of Thomas Reveille...
Said Joe, expelling his long-held breath: "I'm tickled to death it's all over. . . ." Next day, grinning, he started another string that had reached a count of three by week's end-despite the cunning of Pitchers Bob Feller and Harold Newhouser.