Word: schemer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After the publication of the transcripts of the submitted tapes on Watergate, it is inconceivable to me that anyone is still defending Richard Nixon. Even with the obscenities deleted, the transcripts reveal a foul-mouthed schemer, the very kind of person I would believe to be repugnant to the decent, Godfearing, middle-of-the-road and somewhat-to-the-right Americans who helped to elect...
...been replaced as the Proves' top military man). His Roman Catholic scruples would not even let him bring back from the Protestant North a box of contraceptives his men needed to make acid fuses for their bombs. In her book, the Provo leader emerges as a ruthless, Machiavellian schemer, hooked on violence and callous about casualties. "What does it matter if Protestants get killed? They're all just bigots, aren't they?" she quotes MacStiofain as saying after a car bomb had killed several passersby...
Like Elizabeth R, The First Churchills, The Forsyte Saga, and other impressive British productions, Vanity Fair has been lavishly, even beautifully produced. Susan Hampshire, who earlier played Sarah Churchill and Fleur Forsyte, completes her collection of scheming bitches with Becky Sharp, the archetypical schemer. Hampshire manages to be both alluring and repelling, a hothouse feline with a tiger's claw. Always fascinating, she ought to be placed on the list of protected species...
Panelists who back Nixon tend to do so out of respect rather than affection. Says George Hunt, 87, a lifelong Republican from Madison, Wis.: "Nixon is a schemer, a quiet man who hasn't taken the public into his confidence completely. McGovern talks more freely, appealing to young people and frustrated people. But I've already decided who gets my vote: Nixon...
...nearly impossible to remain neutral about Trotsky. Stalin frothed on about him as the counterrevolutionary schemer. George Orwell personified him in Animal Farm as the loquacious pig Snowball, driven out by the dictator pig Napoleon and afterward blamed for everything that goes wrong on the farm. For decades, many liberal intellectuals have overheated their imaginations and their prose on an image of Trotsky as the unbending political outcast and talented literary man. To his closest followers, he was a saint who suffered his final martyrdom in Mexico on Aug. 20, 1940, when a Stalinist assassin buried an Alpine...