Word: deceits
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...mind, the heart or the groin; it is in the feet. His bourgeois lechers stalk women in the streets, jog from bedroom to bedroom, jump into the wrong beds, kick open the wrong doors, and are finally caught flat-footed in the tangled web of their own deceit. The goal of a Feydeau play is ostensibly the bed, but is actually bedlam...
...enlightened European perspective by demonstrative teaching of the practice of scalping and methods of torture perfected during the Inquisition. The English, French and Dutch, though they employed more subtle methods than the Spaniards, achieved the same result. Friendship was met by betrayal. Indian villages were "pacified" by nightriders. Disease, deceit, and destruction of their livestock, their crops, their culture, their land, and finally themselves were dealt to the Indian by the white invaders with whom they had once been willing to share everything, secure in the belief, fundamental to the Indian cosmology, that everything was there to be shared...
...even wide-open markets to the poor defeated Japanese during the past quarter-century, this little island country with no energy resources of any kind was able to reach the enviable position of world's No. 3 industrial power. Yet these ungrateful people are accusing us of deceit. What other country in the world will help Japan carry through to the 21st century with the same rate of growth...
...have nothing to do with the First Amendment," argued Subcommittee Member William L. Springer. "What we're talking about is deceit bordering on fraud...
...Critics have a better argument about the quotation that was taken out of context. Here, Assistant Secretary of Defense Daniel Z. Henkin was shown replying to one CBS question with a statement that was partly from an answer to an earlier inquiry. There is disagreement about whether this constitutes deceit or sloppy editing...