Word: trickyness
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Ever since his return from Chicago as the Republican nominee, Tom Dewey had plugged hard at this task, consulting steadily with the nearby state organizations, ironing out intramural squabbles, quietly dropping dead wood, promoting new blood, stressing his own passion for work, unity, detailed organization, action along planned lines. His...
Wilson insisted on the "exceedingly tricky general principle" of self-determination. Says Lippmann: "The principle can be and has been used to promote the dismemberment of practically every organized state. None knew this better than Adolf Hitler himself."
The U.S. State Department seemed to be planning some positive action in regard to Argentina, perhaps the long-rumored trade embargo. But this might be a tricky weapon. Argentines loathe outside coercion even more than they loathe their blundering militarists.
Bolivia's revolutionary Government, all spruced up and awaiting U.S. recognition, last week let super-rich Mauricio Hochschild out of jail and prepared to deport him. Jailed for counter-revolutionary plotting, the tin tycoon had escaped worse punishment by promising to keep out of Bolivia and her politics. Tricky...
¶ The Germans still held Hill 165, from which they poured a deadly mortar fire on the hard-fighting New Zealand troops in the town. Although Castle Hill, just behind it, is in Allied hands, tricky terrain enabled the Germans to infiltrate through a ravine to the rear whenever New...