Word: speciousness
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...Communists were grabbing for Laos and Cambodia, as well as Viet Nam. But with most Frenchmen ignorant of the pitfalls in such a ceasefire, and impatient for peace, Bidault would find it difficult to reject it out of hand. Commented Bidault: "Very able and very specious. It would mean the complete swallowing of Indo-China by the Viet Minh...
...maids. In its last attempt to displace the independent HUERA as representative of the University's employees, the AFL found its appeal least effective with this group. Now, with a cut in maid service imminent, many of these women are bound to be more receptive to the outside officers, specious though they...
...extravagance that accompanies thoughtless sinning and specious repentance provides the film's humor while a pack of servants contribute the low comedy necessary for most pieces of specific sophistication. As high seduction reigns in the drawing room, the boot-black corners the chambermaid in the kitchen in mocking counter point...
...heavier because "that might bring British policy down out of the Nehrunian clouds." It is just because our interests in Asia are great that we realize that only Asians who have been brought up in a democratic tradition will be able to check the Asian masses attracted by the specious promises of Communism ... There are, of course, some British Socialists who resent the success of American capitalism, and there are some British diehards who resent the transfer of power from London to Washington, but what we resent far more is the American failure to provide an adequate leadership. Your article...
...local Communists, and, at the same time, has managed to keep on good terms with Mao Tse-tung? And in Europe who more fitting than Sir Winston Churchill to meet Malenkov, as he has proposed, and hammer out a modus vivendi between the Communist and non-Communist worlds? This specious reasoning presupposes that the American and Russian systems can be roughly equated. If the political police are vested with undue authority in Russia, so is Senator McCarthy and the FBI in America; if Soviet corrective labor camps are reprehensible, so is discriminatory legislation against Negroes in the Southern states...