Word: doublecrosses
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...Back. Mikolajczyk tried to do business with Communists of high & low degree, and of all shades of temperament. Every experience boiled down to a doublecross. Most interesting doublecrosser was Stalin himself, not the bland, genial Stalin of the photographs, but an unpredictable Georgian who could rave one minute and cajole the next, but who never took his eye off the ball-control of Poland...
Other people began to wonder about the price of rice-and of peace. Was the U.S. indeed striving for peace-or for appeasement? The U.S. had not told any of its friends what it was doing; some Western European diplomats felt as though a vague but vast doublecross was going on over their heads. One Paris theory: that the U.S. would withdraw support from Western Union in exchange for a Russian promise to muzzle Communist parties outside Russia and the satellite states. The other, more widespread-guess among Europe's startled statesmen was that the U.S. was merely trying...
...Killers. Hemingway's short story, hopped up with a complex plot of thievery, violence and doublecross (TIME, Sept...
...Killers. Hemingway's short story, hopped up with a complex plot of thievery, violence and doublecross (TIME, Sept...
...Killers. Hemingway's short story blown up into a complex plot of thievery, violence and doublecross (TIME, Sept...