Word: deviousness
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...Says Author Koeves: "He was slated to lose, for he had misjudged his century. He based his scheme on the assumption that democracy was dead and the way open for the return of an old-fashioned oligarchy." But "democracy, the 'rule of the people,' had taken a devious, paradoxical form, expressed in National Socialism and Communism. The masses had been lured into believing that nobody was taking their freedom away, but that they were renouncing it of their own will, for their own good; thus, even despotism could emerge only as a mass movement, a popular revolt." Papen...
Also passed were resolutions condemning the statute under which the deportation of Harry Bridges has recently been ordered, and also "the devious convictions and exorbitant jail sentences of Early Browder and Fritz Kuhn...
Simplest of all battle strategies is to strike at the enemy's center long enough to make him concentrate his strength there, then roll up the flanks, encircle the whole and annihilate. Though it seems almost too simple for such a devious commander, that is Adolf Hitler's strategy in Russia. He struck at the center, at Bialystok, Minsk, Smolensk, and won great victories which alarmed the Russians. He then went to work on the southern flank, the Ukraine (see below). Finally, last week, he concentrated on the northern flank, the Leningrad sector (see below). If he succeeded...
Every payday he bought more books. Du Maurier suggested Dumas, De Musset, Villon (he picked up French) ; De Quincey brought him toward Wordsworth; Hazlitt, by devious means, to the metaphysicians. He read The Origin of Species and a life of Buddha; he bought a Gray's Anatomy and set his hopes toward medicine. Those hopes were forgotten when he happened on Chaucer, Keats and Shelley, who opened "a world where incredible beauty was daily bread and breath of life...
...Harcourt, Brace has become the U.S. distributor for the untrammeled books in German of Bermann-Fischer Verlag, now mostly printed in Sweden, which reach the U.S. by devious and precarious routes. It was husky, sunburned...