Word: deviousness
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...partners in the Six-all of whom favor Britain's admission into the club. One top German official saw the stalemate as only a plot ploy in the Common Market melodrama. "The drama has started," he said. "I can see exits with doors slamming, tears, shouts of rage, devious subplots involving doublecrossing, and all the rest. But I am completely convinced that this is no tragedy. Late in the third act, everything is going to turn out all right, and the hero and heroine will go hand in hand into the sunset with smiles on their faces...
...English nor the Scots want to recognize the fact that they have been under a common government since 1707). MacArthur is a tall man, somewhat bald, but very distinguished looking. He wears a typically British double-breasted suit and has a politican's ability to be both straightforward and devious at the same time and almost get away with...
...Devious. In Minneapolis some skeptics wonder if Judd's retirement is merely an attempt to inspire a draft; movement to aid him in a gerrymandered, district. But those who know Judd best argue that he will stick by his decision. Says the man in question: "I feel there are things I can do more usefully in the remaining years of my life. I'm not a devious person. If I wanted to run again...
...frustrations at Ike's hands, Nixon remains genuinely admiring of his old chief. His summation of President Eisenhower: "He was a far more complex and devious man than most people realized, and in the best sense of those words. Not shackled to a one-track mind, he always applied two. three, or four lines of reasoning to a single problem and he usually preferred the indirect approach where it would serve him better than the direct attack on a problem. His mind was quick and facile. His thoughts far outraced his speech and this gave rise to his frequent...
Nixon's problems with the extreme right of his party reflect more than an ideological split. Californians reject the give-and-take game which most people consider politics, in favor of much more devious routes to power. The conspiratorial flavor of Birchism, rather than its philosophy, reflects this penchant--as does the elaborate scheme worked out in 1958 by ex-Senator Knowland for putting himself in the Governor's Mansion (and then, presumably, in the White House) and Goody Knight in the Senate. Knowland's scheme crashed around him, and like a defeated putsch-ist he has retired from politics...