Word: guileless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alarming change in the balance of world power, arising from the tragic decisions taken by willful or guileless men representing us at Teheran, Yalta, Potsdam and elsewhere . . . Soviet ascendancy as a world power and our own relative decline...
...elite' of the annual crop of college candidates. I should be glad if Harvard's great reputation did not have the strong appeal to desirable boys that it does have, and I should also be glad if the legendary insouciance of Harvard men were not so often the guileless facade behind which Harvard men are in there pitching for the old university...
...landscape, I start with the sky and the mountains and I leave the foreground for the last. I like to get the far objects into it just as much as the near." The results are often closer to the slick naturalism of Luigi Lucioni than to the guileless sincerity of primitives like Grandma Moses...
...good training for the big time. Charlie learned to use his big hands ("They've milked many a cow") to get the most out of a race horse, and he learned how to deal with rival jockeys. Off the track, Charlie is a shy little fellow with a guileless grin; on a horse, he is a hot-tempered terror. This year he got a nine-day suspension for slashing a jockey, got another ten days for causing a spill, was fined $200 for cussing out another rider, and was out of action for 48 days with a broken wrist...
...March. Innocently worded, it simply condemned atomic bombing as aggression; it did not mention other kinds of aggression-like the Korean. At ballparks, in subways and factories, on street corners, the partisans solicited signatures. "Who isn't for peace? I'll sign," was the reaction of the guileless, the dupes, the muddled. Day after day, the Worker whooped it up, ran advertisements ("The Celebrated Soviet Novelist Alexander Fadeyev Has Signed the Stockholm Peace Appeal"). Those who refused to sign were pictured snarling: "No, I don't want peace; I'm a fascist beast...