Word: deviousness
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...current Soviet crackdown on internal dissent: the confinement of dissidents in mental institutions on the grounds that they are mentally unbalanced. Said Solzhenitsyn in his protest statement, which was circulated to Western newsmen in Moscow: "If this were only the first case! But it has become a fashion, a devious method of reprisal without determining guilt when the real cause is too shameful to be stated...
...bill will aid Government investigators in tracing the often devious routes by which money goes abroad and returns anonymously to the U.S. Robert M. Morgenthau, former U.S. Attorney for the New York area, asserts that some Swiss bank accounts are used to deposit the profits of heroin trafficking. Less often recognized is the dubious or downright illegal use of Swiss bank accounts by seemingly respectable businessmen...
...desire to maintain a balance of power in the world, without which peace is not possible. They were also subject to a variety of domestic pressures, not all of which can be defined in economic terms. As Hofstadter argues in defense of F.D.R.'s prewar policies, "his undeniably devious leadership at certain moments reflected not his Caesaristic aspirations but the difficulties of a democratic politician confronting the force and unhampered initiative of Caesaristic powers" - meaning fascist Japan and Germany...
DRUGS Heroin Diplomacy Though heroin is smuggled into the U.S. by a bewildering variety of secret and devious means, its route before reaching American ports is remarkably well known. Of the 5,500 pounds of the powdery white drug believed to have entered the U.S. last year, fully 80% was grown in poppy fields in central Turkey, processed into morphine base there, and then refined into the final product in France, especially around the southern port city of Marseille...
After a while, the battle-wan reader may feel he has little to gain by following the fortunes of the local satraps up and down the Peloponnesus in this flagrantly detailed novel about Alexander the Great's first 20 years. Not only is the cast large and devious, but the archaeological displays are as plentiful as prize vegetable exhibits at a fair...