Word: deviousness
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Reverse Strike A hulking, meaty, headstrong man, the father of five children, Dolci is a complex of anomalies who seems to pious Italians a devious political crank, and to political reformers a man of exasperating otherworldliness who will fast and pray to get a road built...
...101st Senator." The indictment offers a glimpse at how the onetime $19,612-a-year Senate employee was able to scrape together a fortune that ran up to $2,000,000. The specific charges involve devious transactions over 3½ years that brought Bobby some $137,000 from clients who felt the need of his special talents as "the 101st Senator." None of the money, which he received largely in cash, was reported as taxable income. Furthermore, Baker not only deceived the Government but apparently never played quite foursquare with his cohorts...
...qualities that make for legend and those that make for mere performance are dramatically illustrated by the steel and aluminum crises. Kennedy exhibited his honest anger publicly and had the courage to be his own spokesman. Johnson, devious and cowardly, forced his subordinates to speak for him. I prefer Kennedy's method; the public knew exactly where he stood. If Johnson thinks he has been able to fool the public by staying behind the scenes, he is greatly mistaken; he has only earned himself disrespect...
...forced the company to look elsewhere for nickel oxide. Before turning to Castro, they tried to buy supplies from the 166,761-ton U.S. Government nickel stockpile, but Washington turned them down. Authorities of both Le Nickel and the French government buzz that the U.S. has another, more devious reason for boycotting Le Nickel: early this year the company closed a $20 million deal to sell 19 million Ibs. of finished nickel to Red China. Despite French denials, U.S. Commerce and State Department officers speculate that Charles de Gaulle's government may have urged Le Nickel to make...
More and more in the nineteenth century, this life, as Miller reveals it, grew fatalistically preoccupied with the question of its own national identity. As he traces "the devious paths through which America made its way out of the eighteenth century into the nineteenth," it becomes clear that these are mostly paths of conflict. The two complete sections, "The Evangelical Basis" and "The Legal Mentality", describe endless conflict between emotional and intellectual factions at all levels of society...