Word: deviousness
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...fill for his airport and seawalls. When the quiet, incisive prosecutor twice referred to these payments as "graft," Counsel Wilkinson leaped up, demanded a mistrial. He was overruled. On the stand a string of dredging company officials supported and elaborated the Government's charge, pieced together a devious tale of threats and intimidation, of large cash sums passed quietly to Shushan or his go-betweens. Loudly Counsel Wilkinson protested that these "rebates" were simply campaign contributions which passed through Shushan's hands as a collector for the Long machine...
...Stone & Co. for some financing by which it might pay off a staggering total of bank loans-$25,000,000 borrowed to purchase indirect control of Corrigan, McKinney Steel before Depression. Under the terms of the pending merger of Corrigan, McKinney with Republic Steel, Cleveland-Cliffs will bv a devious corporate route receive large blocks of Republic stock, of which it already holds more than 100,000 shares...
Portly, sales-minded Richard Reynolds, nephew of Winston-Salem's late Tobacco-man Richard Joshua Reynolds, arrived at the building business by the devious route of tin foil for tobacco and the Eskimo Pie, wrappings and labels for ham, candy boxes, ginger ale bottles, other fast-selling packaged products. Few years ago he made the discovery that the foil which wraps an Eskimo Pie can also be used to insulate a house. It was really no discovery at all because the Germans had long used shiny foil for insulation because of its high reflective power. Foilman Reynolds...
Their romance, involving nocturnal meetings at which Coralee was embarrassed because she was wearing only stepins', developed by the devious paths of mutual misunderstandings. These two lovers were so easily baffled that they could not grasp even the most rudimentary aspects of each other's characters. Camilo could never get it through his dark and well-groomed head that Coralee, in her new role of star, was just the same little girl to whom he had delivered groceries. (He had some justification, for Coralee's eyes, china-blue in Chapter One, turned dewy violet in Chapter Five...
...Chairman Duncan Upshaw Fletcher of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee has more power over the country's monetary policies than any other man in the U. S. Actually the aging gentleman from Florida has very little to say about it. He makes a conscientious effort to follow the devious convolutions of the monetary squabble but final word now rests with the White House...