Word: deviousness
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...frank discussion in families, in groups, between couples, and between older and younger collegeagues in the college." But he cautioned his audience of physicians that "until we resolve our own confusions we will not be in a favorable position to help our younger colleagues thread their way through the devious paths of development to sexual maturity...
Jumped Ship. Yet Malraux's return to his old haunts was almost as devious and shrouded in mystery as any of his assignments as a revolutionary courier. Ostensibly, he left his post as France's Minister of Cultural Affairs on doctor's orders to take a long, relaxing sea voyage. He boarded the steamer Le Cambodge, and his destination was Japan. But, at Singapore, he left the ship, caught a plane to Hong Kong. Next thing anyone knew, he was in Canton, asking to see the Whampoa Military Academy, where he had an office...
...firm was building. McCloskey claimed that it was only a bookkeeping goof, but Reynolds testified that $25,000 of the money was illegally channeled into the Democrats' 1960 presidential campaign fund through Baker. Generously, the committee found McCloskey's testimony "candid and convincing," dismissed Reynolds' as "devious and inconsistent...
...South Vietnamese soldiers who protected themselves from ambush by spraying the jungle on each side with machine-gun fire. No sooner had the convoy passed than 500 Viet Cong on bicycles emerged from the jungle and pedaled madly in pursuit until it was out of sight. On his devious journey to guerrilla headquarters, Okamura was escorted at a killing pace through the jungle by a 73-year-old woman guide, then was taken in hand by a Viet Cong commissar who wore a cowboy hat, an orange shirt, and had a police whistle strung round his neck...
...broadens their appeal and propels them up the bestseller lists. Funeral in Berlin, if not quite of the master class, is plausible and pleasant. Its special quality is an ironic humor in the midst of triple treachery. Its plot is of more-than-Byzantine intricacy, with a plump and devious British agent, a German Jew masquerading as an ex-Nazi, a Soviet colonel masquerading as a defector, and a smashingly sexy American girl who turns out to be an Israeli agent. The backgrounds, chiefly Berlin and London, are deftly convincing; the derring-do is deadpan and understated...