Word: dishonestly
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...blunter advocate of this course than wizened, fierce-mustached George Grivas, 66, the ascetic little soldier (5 ft. 4 in.) who led Cyprus' EOKA revolt against Britain in 1959 and spent five years in Greek exile. Dissatisfied with the policies of Makarios, whom he considers dishonest, not very clever, and a dupe of the Communists, Grivas talked Greece's leadership into letting him return to Cyprus last month. Virtually unannounced, he arrived and instantly won the loyalty of the Greek Cypriot irregulars-to the considerable chagrin of Makarios, who wants to get rid of Turkish influence in Cyprus...
...NIGHT WATCH. This tough, perceptive French thriller follows five jailbirds along an underground escape route and unearths a bitter tale of honor among dishonest...
Copy sent to the New York Times and TIME was indicted jointly as "inaccurate, frequently dishonest, overpartisan and hostile to South Africa and whites particularly the Afrikaner and the Nationalist Party." Times Correspondent C. S. Sulzberger was rated "100% very bad." Reuters, Ltd., the British wire service, was found guilty of "deliberately hiding the illiteracy and semibarbarism of the mass of the native people." United Press International transmissions rated no higher: "Blindly prejudiced, unscrupulously tendentious." Associated Press reports "had the appearance of having been made for the purpose of conducting a campaign against South Africa and for use in journals...
...School Committee has gathered support by constantly repeating Mrs. Hicks' third assumption, that the cure would be worse than the disease. Few parents, white or negro, want their children bused to an unfamiliar school many miles away from home. However, Mrs. Hicks' exploitation of this issue is dishonest, for meaningful integration can be achieved in Boston within the context of the neighborhood school, without busing. The Negro community lives in a long, thin crescent which bisects Roxbury. The present school zones are narrow strips running lengthwise with the crescent. By rotating these zones ninety degrees, they would extend outside...
...Barry stuck to his guns. Appearing before the Women's National Press Club in Washington, he said: "It's better for a candidate to be honest rather than dishonest. I wouldn't want to offer myself as a candidate anywhere with a lie under my hat. This TVA is a socialistic venture which has been perpetrated on the American public without their knowing what they're getting into. I'm not going to keep my mouth shut about it." Would he like to debate Jack Kennedy? "I would enjoy that very much. We spent nine...