Word: deviousness
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...Revolt of the Admirals: In 1948 he became Assistant Chief of Naval Operations for Organizational Research and Policy, head of the controversial Operation 23, which prepared the Navy case against the B-36 and carried on a devious back-door campaign with newspapermen and politicians against the Administration policy of priority for air power. In 1949, when Burke's name came up for promotion to rear admiral, President Truman punitively crossed it off the list, later restored it when Admiral Forrest Sherman and press took up the issue...
...political savvy to rise from a small-town spellbinder to the peerage and a Cabinet post. In Not Honour More, Husband No. 2, Jim Latter, gets his chance to speak up. A simple man of good will, he tells how he gets so fed up with the devious politics of Husband No. 1, and his not-so-devious attentions to the woman they both love, that he finds it morally essential to murder his wife. Author Gary is a first-rate hand at first-person storytelling. A great actor in fiction, he made a compassionate Nina, a volatile Nimmo...
...Bandung's dusty streets, fezzes mingled with turbans, longyis with Bond Street suits. A swirl of exotic prophets, devious schemers and earnest advocates swarmed in from afar to urge their causes. Resplendent in a red tarboosh and black gown, the former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem materialized like a wraith from the past. There was a young Turkestani from Brooklyn to protest against the "tragic conditions of Moslems in the Soviet Union and China," a delegation from South Africa to urge condemnation of apartheid...
...Scelba remarked: "I didn't think this lemon tree would ever blossom, but ..." A few days later, he was Premier. He has survived for 14 months through nine votes of confidence (winning margin only last week: 67 votes) despite his shaky Christian Democrat coalition, slim margin and the devious opposition of party Secretary-General Amintore Fanfani. After attending a Commons session in London this year, Scelba, who must contend with tossed insults, ink pots and punches in Italy's Chamber of Deputies, sighed and said of Britain's Parliament: "It's like a family gathering!" Under...
...Party Leader Ollenhauer, a good-natured ineffectual, has been increasingly mesmerized by the party's extreme left wing. The leading light on the left is pipe-smoking Herbert Wehner, 48, a devious, rambunctious orator and former Communist (1927-43). Wehner prefers to move quietly in the background of the SPD, whispering his neutralist notions into Ollenhauer's hospitable ear, bombarding the party executive with confidential memos...