Word: deviousness
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...that the Iron Curtain nations suffered a well-concealed crop failure last season. Another possibility is that the Red orders were placed for a propaganda purpose. Buying token amounts of wheat from Canada at a time when the country is deeply worried about its wheat surplus would be a devious but possibly effective way to make friends. Trade & Commerce Minister C. D. Howe made it clear, however, that as far as Canada was concerned, the business was strictly business. Said Howe: "No quid pro quo has been asked for and none has been offered...
Honor Beclouded. Then, with an august frown, the Senate turned to deal with Francis Case, who by devious but predictable senatorial reasoning was thought to have beclouded the honor of the entire body. Georgia's Senator Walter George was named to head the special committee investigating the Case contribution. Meek Francis Case (he was so overwhelmed by his notoriety that at one time newsmen found him hiding, face half-shielded, in a telephone booth) was the first witness...
...gone. But the marvelous Baroque drive and momentum of the inner line is still there. Welles has applied to it the kind of Mannerist treatment that has always come most naturally to him, introducing as he does such elements as the disproportionate, the unbalanced, the oblique, and the devious...
...World War I, and in World War II, in the absence of all effective French arms, could only snuffle about the lack of carrier pigeons. But filling the canvas with idiots, crooks and poltroons has the strange effect of diminishing Reynaud's own stature. If such malicious and devious grotesques ruled France, how is it that Reynaud, who saw so well, could not have frustrated them...
...completely hornswoggled by a master spy. In Tokyo in the late '303, Attache Meissner became friendly with "Correspondent" Sorge, who even was a guest at Meissner's wedding. Later, as a P.W. in an Allied camp, Meissner met others who had crossed Sorge's devious path, and from his own and their experiences, assembled his story...