Word: slipperyness
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He is a man of dimension, there can be no disputing that, and over the years his friends and foes have praised or damned him in outsize terms. To the rabid, almost reverential followers of his University of Alabama football teams, Paul William ("Bear") Bryant is a nearly mythic figure...
As the U.S. mulls over the relationship with its allies these days, it may be no more sure of what makes for good friendship than what makes for good government, of where kindliness becomes interference, assistance domination: these are the old familiar battle lines. For their part, the allies may...
As athletes and Olympic committees pondered their options, the White House was making slippery use of statistics to prove that the boycott's effect was more than psychological. Countries on the U.S. no-show list accounted for 73% of the gold medals and 71% of all medals won by...
"I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole," he said when he became Prime Minister, and this series is a capsule history of that slippery ascent. He was able to enter politics only because his father had fought with his synagogue and had had his children baptized as...
Ironically, some members of the White House staff grew restive at all the public threats by Carter about taking military action against Iran?presumably in May. Last Tuesday Jordan called a meeting to hear their complaints. Speech Writer Hendrik Hertzberg said he could not shake "an uneasy feeling that we...