Word: underhandedness
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The outburst went far deeper than interservice bickering. Its weight made the shabby machinations and underhanded skulduggery that had preceded it seem inconsequential. The rebels were men with long and distinguished careers, among them some of the Navy's proudest names. In its impassioned power, the revolt brushed aside...
I hope that your elaborate spread on how we smog-eaten Angelenos all drive snappy Cadillacs into our private swimming pools doesn't create a stampede of suckers to come out here! It stinks out here; the phoniest town ever slapped together by stucco and fog, and sprinkled by...
Two nights later, he was roused from his bed. Communist officials showed him a photograph of two priests holding a long metal cylinder. In this, they said, were found the documents which incriminated the cardinal. "The case has blown wide open," said one Red. "Now you'll have to...
A lot of things got straightened out last night in this case of Fisher vs, the Harvard Young Republican Club. All of them fall into one basic, unpleasant pattern. It is a pattern of guilt on both sides. The Club has been guilty of various underhanded political machinations--the sort...
Malan's Nationalists, tainted with anti-Semitism and wartime pro-Naziism, had promised freedom to Britain-haters who had been imprisoned for sabotage during the war. Some Nationalists waged an underhanded campaign. One canvasser approached a white woman who was washing her baby girl, and said: "If Smuts wins...