Word: deviousness
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Peace proposals have raised rows before, but this one took the cake. It was not so much the proposal itself as the man who made it: proud, devious, embittered John L. Lewis...
...Japanese radio, devious by habit and well coached by the Nazis, could boast several propaganda exploits. It cut in on the Far Eastern beam of California's KGEI to give phony "flashes" on the "bombing" of San Francisco. It presented an American "Lady Haw-Haw" to inform America of the "annihilation" of the U.S. fleet. Last week it fished for U.S. listeners by promising to announce the names of prisoners "as soon as they are available" -i.e., in driblets, to keep the audience tuned...
Throughout the Present war, the library at the Herbarium has traded its monthly publications for those of Germany and other warring nations, even though some rather devious financial and diplomatic complications have had to be unravelled as a result. In addition, American or German naturalists who have "discovered" and named new plants have relayed the information to their brethren scientists through the exchange of special card indexes containing all the data...
This week officials in Rome announced that the elusive Mufti had done it again. He was safe in Italy. According to the Italians, the British had set $100,000 on his head. By what devious route the Mufti slipped through Britain's clutching fingers was his secret...
Propaganda? There is nothing devious in the procedure of thus pointing up a one-line War Department announcement destined for routine burial in the back pages of newspapers. U.S. short-wave men can and occasionally do demand from "the Donovan people" through Richardson a convincing check on the accuracy of any news passed to them. Yet they appreciate the help they get from a new service that saves them a lot of work...