Word: wile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Archie's past fights, and, with canny Manager Cus D'Amato. planning his battle, round by round. Still, the smart money rode with the veteran. It was Moore. Moore, Moore, as squat, cold-eyed men talked around their smoldering cigars about the old man's wile, experience and mulelike punch. Only a last-minute showing of "Eastern" money drove the odds down where they deserved to be: Moore...
...sights. As they approached Trafalgar Square, the busiest crossroads in London, the police swung around one way as had been planned, but instead of following them, Malenkov's ZIS swung off the other way. There was a squealing of brakes as his guards discovered the wile, but when at last they caught up, there was Malenkov, unprotected in the middle of London's surging crowds. He had been told, he said, to be sure not to miss the Lord Nelson column...
...which say that we have come here with a motive-for the purpose of exploiting things," he said with a broad Slavic smile. "I would say to these people that we are quite willing to compete with them for the friendship of India." With all the talent, affability and wile at their command, Soviet Communism's two traveling salesmen plunged into the competition last week. In legislative halls and banquet rooms, at ancient shrines and new construction projects, in plush drawing rooms and crowd-crammed streets, with merry quips, tough speeches and promises tossed out like rose petals, they...
...shall not be reckless and witless, relaxing our posture merely because a persistent foe may assume a smiling face and a soft voice. By wisdom, I mean a calm awareness that strength at home, strength in allies, strength in moral position, arm us in impregnable fashion to meet every wile and stratagem that may be used against us. But I mean also a persevering resolution to explore every decent avenue towards a lasting and just peace, no matter how many and how bitter our disappointments. I mean an inspired faith that men's determination and capacity to better their...
...warms to her work like a flash fire in a dry thicket. Breathing a warning ("Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets . . .") that is already familiar to jukebox listeners all over the nation, she lays siege to her innocent quarry in a hectically eclectic attempt at seduction. No woman's wile is too corny or battle-worn for Lola as she romps about the stage to an insistent Latin rhythm, flinging caution and clothing to the winds. Stretched on a locker-room bench upstage, she sparks the onslaught with a try at the always reliable peek-a-boo technique. "Allo...