Word: unwittingness
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As a result, the SVR'S foreign tentacles are probing in many places. Earlier this year, Italian authorities rounded up 28 high-tech spies in what former President Francesco Cossiga called the largest Soviet network ever uncovered in Europe. Since the espionage arrests in Belgium, the Dutch government has expelled...
Hughes stands out as the lascivious, obnoxious and Machiavellian Valmont. Everything from his swaggering gait to his libidinal outbursts a delineates a distinctive Valmont. His character suffers from frustrated vanity, and he devises his own fall with unwitting irony. He disgusts the audience with his lecherousness and charms them with...
"I see myself here basically to listen," Clark said. "I see there's a lot of tension here, witting and unwitting."
Devastated by outbreaks of paralytic polio, the people of the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) had every reason to be thankful in 1957, when they became the first large group to receive an experimental polio vaccine. Ironically, the quest for deliverance from this ancient scourge may have made them unwitting participants...
Presidents are only part of this unwitting conspiracy. Politics is now a drama of motion. The media love the exhilaration of nomadic statecraft. Anchors like Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather climbed the ladder by breathless appearances at exotic summits from Beijing to Moscow.