Word: hoodwink
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nine volumes and nearly 6,500 pages, countless readers have followed Lanny Budd through the labyrinths of modern politics. Although he passed as a mere art expert, Lanny was really F.D.R.'s Secret Agent No. 103. He could mingle easily with the world's great men, hoodwink Hitler into disclosing secret plans, advise General Patton on military strategy and Harry Hopkins on political tactics, and even win the admiration of Stalin. There was almost nothing that Lanny could not do; under the spell of such a hero, anxiety-ridden readers could begin to feel safe again...
...that he is an antiFascist, shelters with an unwilling bourgeois housewife (Helen Beverly). He also toys viciously, in his spare time, with her nubile daughter (Starlet Nancy Gates). His most useful dupe is an emotional miller (Paul Guilfoyle) who, easily led to believe that the Allies are eager to hoodwink and exploit his fellow townsmen, stirs up labor trouble and blows up a military jail. His most dangerous enemy is a repentant Nazi prisoner (Eric Feldary), whose murder he brings about and who, with his dying breath, denounces him to the occupation officers...
...collaborator, Franklin Roosevelt, in separate but carefully correlated accounts, reported on the war and made some prophecies. Mr. Churchill dealt mostly with immediate problems and gains; Mr. Roosevelt, with the grand objectives (see p. 15). Doubtless the Prime Minister and the President intended some of their words to hoodwink the enemy.* But they also gave the Allied world some information and much encouragement...