Word: deviousness
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...Devious Device. For all its closed-door meetings (no fewer than 61 in the first four months of 1963), COMECON has come to hardly any substantial agreements. Although the COMECON nations and Red China last week agreed on a 40% to 50% cut in air fares within the Red bloc, COMECON has been able to reach agreement on production assignments to members in only a few, uncontroversial cases...
...West by as much as 40% while it increases its COMECON purchases only 18%. Such predominantly agrarian countries as Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Rumania, which want desperately to build new industries, are beginning to look on COMECON's tendency to expand their mining and agricultural output as a devious device to keep them forever down on the farm and unable to build their own industry...
...army field marshal who once showed up at an embassy dinner party in Bangkok carrying his own liquor, with the complaint that his host's hooch was second rate. Cirrhosis of the liver and the responsibility of power calmed him down. Though he once was involved in various devious deals, he slashed corruption to the minimum. "He wants his name in the history books, not his money in a Swiss bank account," an observer explained...
...Devious Schemes. For five years, the country was never quite sure what the President would say or do next. His most consistent policy was his antiCommunism. Guatemala was the training base for the Bay of Pigs invaders, and Ydigoras was loudest among Latin America's anti-Castroites. Yet recently, Ydigoras seemed to be going about it in a devious and dangerous way that enraged his most loyal supporters...
...banks of the Mekong, it failed to dampen the merrymaking. The band played on, the ministers and their ladies continued to sip champagne. Shrugged one guest: "No one had it more coming to him and from more quarters than did Quinim Pholsena.'' Hardworking, dedicated and devious. Quinim lacked the customary Laotian charm and grew up consumed by bitterness and envy. Unlike most other Laotian politicians, he did not belong to a rich or princely family. He made a lot of money as a merchant and investor, but in politics he was always a man of the left; though...