Word: sleight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dogma was certainly specific enough, and many Russians even today have a lingering prejudice against private property. Such an attitude, of course, could put a serious crimp in the Kremlin's ambitious plans to create a consumer-oriented economy. Last week Izvestia attempted through sleight of mind to remove the stigma of ownership from Marxist-Leninist doctrine...
...Exactly what he'll find where urban community development once stood is hard to say -- perhaps something like "better burg breeding" or "coached community commotion" or any one of a thousand possible locutions which would shed an aura of respectability on an undertaking whose very nature suggests a lurking, sleight-of-hand presence...
...entire U.S., the budget tells businessmen how much the Government may be expected to buy from them, taxpayers how much it will take from them to do the buying with. Within its labyrinth are enough booby traps to bedevil an army of certified public accountants, enough opportunities for sleight of hand to exhaust a prestidigitator. The budget gives the impression of disclosing what everything costs, right down to the last G51 clerk ($3,507), but it carefully conceals such strategic particulars as the spending of the Central Intelligence Agency (estimated to be about $500 million, though there is no exact...
...dreadful action. The hypnotic effect may not take in some readers who will be irritated by the tones of an adult careful not to use big words to a low-IQ child. Moreover, Fast's publishers call Torquemada a tour de force; it could also be a sleight of hand. How it is read probably depends on how much the reader knows of history, not excluding the history of Howard Fast...
Keynesian in approach, an anti-inflationary manipulation aimed at curbing a surging economy. It appeared to many to be a bit of sleight of hand as well, and it did, to be sure, depend rather heavily on some imponderables. For one thing, the President was relying on congressional passage of his various tax programs, which may face some opposition. Beyond that, Government forecasts have averaged an almost 9% error on revenues, more than 6% on spending. This year's budget totals, said a White House aide, are "highly uncertain." As it now stands, the administrative budget, not counting...