Word: deviousness
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Neither foxy Major General Claire Chennault nor the foe gave any hint where the Scorpions had their nest. But it was so remote that written communications with Chungking would take two weeks by devious routes through enemy lines. When not engaged in banging at enemy airfields or escorting Superfortresses returning from Manchuria, the Scorpions had a routine chore: shooting up locomotives on the Japs' tenuous north China railways. In two months their score...
...resignation, on the grounds that he and his assistant were "personally incompatible." Instead of his resignation, Littell wrote out a withering 12,000-word blast at his boss. The Attorney General of the U.S., Littell charged, was guilty of "confusion [and] superficiality of mind . . . frustration . . . personal vanity . . . devious ways . . . petty, personal animosity . . . intimate connections" with Lobbyist Tommy Corcoran to the detriment of the public interest. He charged that the Attorney General was "exasperated" because Littell had warned Congress of three shady-looking Administration schemes...
...short paragraphs in TIME (Oct. 30) on the British War Office action against long-winded and stilted writing are important. One of the great stumbling blocks in our society is the archaic, devious and unnatural way we use language in expressing our laws, our insurance policies, our leases, mortgages and government directives...
...cancer was a topic for 40 experts in Bar Harbor, Me. last week. They concluded that they knew very little about it. The meeting was called by Dr. (of Science) Clarence Cook Little, head of the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory where, since its founding in 1929, the devious ways of mouse cancer have been studied. Some things the experts did not know...
...Coming across" has been the leitmotiv of the Somoza regime. Cattlemen pay through import-&-export levies, marketing and slaughtering licenses. Gold-mine operators pay through special "taxes." Those who deal in mahogany, cinchona bark, milk, hides, tallow, cement and liquor pay in devious but nonetheless painful ways. Nicaraguans quip about an alphabetical list of Somoza rackets running from A to Z; they say that X stands for rackets unknown to the public...