Word: deviousness
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...streets in advance, builds one house beside the other methodically, pausing from time to time to call attention to the increase in population. But in building his city of Jefferson, Miss, in six novels and three books of short stories, William Faulkner has followed a far more devious path. In effect, he has put down one street and then built houses miles away from it. As the same characters (or their sons and grandsons) turned up in volume after volume, critics suspected that Faulkner had some unified plan that would become apparent when his cycle of books was completed...
Miriam gave the Beards clear title to first U. S. historical family when she brought out her 779-page History of the Business Man, tracing the devious path of capitalists from Babylon to Roosevelt...
...reeds of the river bank when Japanese motorboats appeared, fired a couple of belts of machine gun bullets into the Panay, boarded her and finally left her to sink. Two hours and 20 minutes after the attack began the Panay capsized and sank. Not until long after dark, by devious routes, some carrying their wounded on borrowed stretchers, did the survivors reach the town Hohsien. There they were picked up some 36 hours later by the Oahu and the British gunboat...
...neither one of the original conspirators in the civil war, nor the first choice of its instigators as its military leader. In 1936, as soon as the Madrid Government announced that national elections had returned a thumping Leftist majority, plans for the rebellion were laid. Guiding spirit was the devious Catholic politician Jose Maria Gil Robles, now Rightist representative to Portugal. Leader of the rebellion was to be General Jose Sanjurjo. Francisco Franco, whom the republican Government had rusticated on the Canary Islands, was expected to play a part, but a minor one. On the word of the cocksure conspirators...
...back when he was offered a canonry. Since that time the mere mention of Germany has been enough to make him go to pieces. But it has never occurred to him that a child might turn up. Servants get hold of the first clues. With these and Silburians' devious skill in putting two & two together-the Canon's increasing nervousness, physical resemblances, further note-comparing by returned English tourists-the news soon gets around. After hearing the Canon"s full confession (a mixture of contrition and lyricism about nude bathing in a mountain stream), Dean Mallinson makes...