Word: deviousness
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That the British Raj could ever forgive U Saw seemed possible only to those who know how devious is the course of empire and how tough the imperial going has been in Burma since it was liberated from the Japs...
...charged Lustig and aides with keeping two sets of books to defraud the U.S., other devious ways of hiding profits. One was to siphon $2,000,000 from restaurant tills to a safe-deposit box of Lustig's. Another way: taking the tips of hat-check girls...
...Communist. Last week he blared the party's new line: "We are the champions and defenders of the middle class." Other Communist leaders: ruddy, rotund Florimond Bonte, 55, clerk's son and charter party member, is the Communist foreign affairs expert. Tall, devious Andre Marty, 59, an International Brigadier in the Spanish Civil War, is the party hellion...
...News did it by declaring editorially: "If [Churchill] and his party don't win this election there is no gratitude in England." In seeming to praise Churchill, the Anglophobic News had a more obvious than devious design: to iterate its moth-eaten theory that Churchill tricked the U.S. into the war. The famed Manchester Guardian saw a chance to spank the brat...
...course, we, the circle of German physicians at Kiev, were aware of the importance of this job. Aside from certain devious phases of this action I still maintain that, just as one prunes a tree-by removing old, undesirable branches in the spring, so for its own interest a certain hygienical supervision of the body of a people is necessary from time to time...