Word: schemer
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...ball when he missed easy shots. He fell a great many times and got up very slowly. London's Daily Telegraph tried to be charitable: "Should we not be nearer the truth in regarding his behavior more in the light of an overgrown schoolboy than as a schemer trying to steal a rest...
...Schemer and Coup. Since last January's elections, one of Mikolajczyk's erstwhile followers had been scheming to take the Polish Peasant Party into the Government bloc. A few hours after the Government communique the schemer, sandy-haired, wispy-mustached Czeslaw Wycech and a handful of followers fell upon the offices of Mikolajczyk's party newspaper, Gazeta Ludowa. They took over, Wycech boasted, "not by force, but by revolutionary methods." The result was that Mikolajczyk's own paper was the only one in Warsaw to announce flatly that he had "shamelessly and mysteriously" fled the country...
...Banion was rubbed out. His mob half-killed Johnny Torrio with shotgun slugs, broke his nerve and drove him out of town. For a while, the O'Banions were as tough as Al's mob. Its leaders were hard and ambitious-George ("Bugs") Moran, Vincent ("The Schemer") Drucci and Earl (Hymie) Weiss, the rosary-fingering inventor of the one-way ride. One day seven automobile loads of O'Banion men parked in front of Al's GHQ in Cicero and riddled it with Tommy guns. Al escaped. The O'Banions were not really broken until...
...Home and Information Minister of the new Central Government, as boss of the Congress Party, Patel represents what cohesive power Free India has. This cinder-eyed schemer is not the best, the worst, the wisest or the most typical of India's leaders, but he is the easiest to understand, and on him, more than on any man, except Gandhi, depends India's chance of surviving the gathering storms...
...walked into the first of the disputes which were to occupy him for more than three decades of labor wars. Curiously, he was not a violent man. He was an earnest schemer who believed that most things could be settled by compromise. A young man in button shoes, speaking broken English, he brought about settlement of a strike at Hart Schaffner & Marx which became the basis for peace in the company for 35 years...