Word: dishonestly
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...Chinese soldier, when well-trained, well-fed and well-led, is as good as any, Bullitt reported. But, he said, many of the top-ranking officers are both incompetent and dishonest. Therefore, to turn the tide of the war in China, Bullitt said, requires American direction and control, exercised by "a fighting general of the highest qualities, with an adequate staff of able officers." He thought that General Douglas MacArthur could do the job quickest. But he also mentioned as prospects, General Mark W. Clark, and Lieut. Generals Albert C. Wedemeyer and J. Lawton Collins. He called for the revival...
...question about price is answered, 'As you like.' You take a program and again hear, 'Whatever you want to give.' ... All this is done so sweetly and politely ... It is disgusting because it is so degrading, and often it is just an easy but dishonest way to profiteer...
Intellectuals are apt to consider themselves somewhat more intelligent and sensitive than most people, and in Poe's case, the root of the trouble seems to have been that he was. He grandly offered to solve any cipher that his readers sent him. People sent him dishonest ciphers-i.e., those which a correspondent could not have readily deciphered even with the key. Poe solved them anyway. His critical essays, that seemed so ill-tempered to his contemporaries, now seem merely honest and forthright. In general, posterity has agreed with...
Sullen Vacancy. Wallace has persuaded himself that only Wallace is honest; that all his enemies are wrong and full of deceit. Perhaps only a dishonest man could think himself so completely honest...
...message from Moscow, where the protection of bigwigs is a highly developed science, Premier Stalin rebuked his Italian satraps for not taking better care of Togliatti. Crestfallen, they responded with an article in L'Unitá promising to purge themselves of "the timid, the opportunists, the dishonest and the provocateurs." They also disclosed that party membership had dropped by 50,000 (to 2,200,000) in the past year...