Word: dishonestly
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...book, Dinner at the White House (Harper), returned the compliment by suing Adamic and the publisher for libel. He also demanded that the book be taken off the stands. Adamic, in describing fellow diner Churchill, had written of his "stubborn cranium," had called him "simultaneously honest and dishonest," "a very great leader and . . . also evil," and noted "the eyes and mouth which were shrewd, ruthless, unscrupulous," but just what Churchill considered libelous was not made public. The amount of damages was left up to the jury...
...prewar R.A.F. padre, not a pilot, a slight difference in occupational activity. I did not say that The Bells of St. Mary's was "so bad," but that it had a dishonest element to which devout Catholics also objected...
...Bennett Clark had chipped and sniped away at Franklin Roosevelt. In the 1944 primaries, Clark was repudiated by Missouri voters in the primary, largely on the strength of labor opposition. Now labor was furious. Cried C.I.O. Spokesman J. Raymond Walsh: "A scandal, crude and inexcusable. . . . It's not dishonest, it's simply dangerous...
...made a mistake because New Zealand's Peter Fraser caught him by surprise with a question. Fraser retorted that Cadogan had checked the transcript of the answer with him. Snapped Fraser to Webster: "Don't try to slide out by making misstatements. What you are doing is dishonest." U.S. Senator Tom Connally, who was presiding, got Fraser to withdraw the "dishonest...
...nearly as bad as I expected to find, considering the circumstances. Second, there has always been in China the "squeeze" system, which we consider graft, but they do not. Any Chinese who handles a transaction for you takes 10%. If he takes 20%, he is dishonest; but, if he does not take 10%, he is not considered honest, he is just dumb. The Chinese say that dishonesty consists in leaving somebody with the wrong impression. So it is not graft from the Chinese point of view, because everybody knows perfectly well it is being done. It is "old custom...