Word: naivet
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...Commerce Minister, says "This law may be a mistake, but faced by the uncertainties of future war or depression . . . it is a very honest attempt to meet the problems that might arise," the man in the street sees the sincerity of Brofoss' remark but misses its naiveté. Another obstacle, said a bitter Norwegian shipowner, was too much reliance on skippertak, the Norwegian habit of procrastinating until the last minute and then hustling to set matters aright. This time, when the last minute came, there was no skippertak...
Cross-Examination. It took three days for Lattimore to finish reading his statement. Then, in a more subdued atmosphere, his cross-examination began. Again the professor fell back on his self-claimed naiveté about Communism and Communists...
...grown up enough to know why Carl behaved as he did, and how much she had to do with it. She has also crossed the color line, bearing a full quota of sympathy for Clara. Author Coleman has told his story with a simplicity that only occasionally slips into naiveté. Clara is no major work of fiction, but it is an honest book on a ticklish subject, and it has the virtue of being about ordinary people, well understood...
Said Streit: "The naiveté, the equivocation and the denials of the coaches and their assistants concerning their knowledge of gambling, recruiting and subsidizing would be comical were they not so despicable...
Colonel von Broeck (Robert Douglas) and his operatives ply the flyers (Mark Stevens, Alex Nicol, Don Taylor) with hospitality, prod them with bluster and, when advisable, brutality. They get what they want by playing on the Americans' individual strengths and weaknesses: regional pride, naiveté, cockiness, loyalty to each other. The picture's exposition of enemy intelligence tricks and U.S. airmen's gullibility is so carefully rigged that it makes the Germans look clever enough to have won the war hands down. But it is still absorbing stuff...