Word: dishonestly
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...opposing forces that seem forever to be driving him on. Hammarskjold, by his own reading of himself, is simultaneously a mystic and a materialist, a romantic and a realist. As a student, he was deeply influenced by the negativist philosophy of Axel Hagerstrom, who taught that metaphysics is dishonest and only matter real. The influence lingers: when Hammarskjold is talking business, he is as hard as stone. Yet the "Great Deflater," as an old friend calls Hammarskjold, writes intense romantic lyrics and goes roaming through the Lapland mountains in search of a mystic ideal. In many men, such a dichotomy...
...illustrate his argument, he named a few of the bosses of the day. At this point Warren A. Seavey, Bussey Professor of Law, interrupted. Quite off-handedly, he suggested that the student could use the current mayor of Boston, James Michael Curley, as an equally good example of a dishonest politician. Seavey did not know as he said this that Mayor Curley's son was sitting in the front row of the class...
...made reasonable the assumption that Russia, Britain and the U.S. could act in postwar concert. The record as now revealed undercuts this argument. Stalin, at least, kept his head above the tide of comradeship. He defined his national and party objectives, studied them carefully, defended them with lucid (if dishonest) arguments, and attained them. Some of his aims seemed quite limited when compared to the ballooning notions of world reorganization cherished in Washington; Stalin fought for one river boundary of Poland against another with the myopic pertinacity of a 17th century diplomat arguing over a second-string fortress...
...customers are not only mercilessly fleeced (watered milk, tapped scales) but also lectured on the virtues of the Germans, the vices of the French, the cunning treachery of the Jews. Papa Poissonard is a happy man: "He had found the means to be systematically dishonest, that dream of all honest people, and . . . felt not in the least ashamed...
Several former officers of the Young Republican Club joined last night in calling for an impartial investigation by the HYRC of charges of dishonest campaigning in the organization's recent election...