Word: wiliest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power, carefully contained but ready for instant application. His close-cropped skull and impassive features give him the forbidding countenance of a Japanese war lord. His steely mind and stinging tongue deepen the impression of a political samurai. Though he is in fact one of the nation's wiliest politicians, in private life he is a puckish, convivial figure...
...election victory, the parties to the left of defeated Candidate Juan Bosch have dissipated their strength by intramural squabbling. Balaguer has denied the far left a leader by preventing the return of rebels who were shipped abroad after the civil war, and by appointing one of the wiliest, Hector Aristy Pereira, representative to the U.N. Economic and Social Council in Paris...
...ruler of Afghanistan is a man of many accomplishments. At 51, Mohammed Zahir Shah can snag the wiliest trout in the Hindu Kush, swoop down a ski slope at 60 m.p.h., or drop a brace of partridge as deftly as a skeet cham pion. He rides like Lochinvar, golfs near par on any course, and betweentimes collects rare books and Oriental art. On his experimental farm outside the ancient capital of Kabul, he raises mutant grapes, outsize apricots, and dairy cattle that can withstand the rigors of Afghan altitude with milky aplomb. But as one of his courtiers puts...
Pies into Pence. Even in the heat of debate, Wilson's attack on Home was hardly warranted: the Tory leader had specifically deplored racism during the campaign. For that matter, few M.P.s believed that Wilson, who is one of the coolest, wiliest tacticians in the Labor Party, delivered such a diatribe on the spur of the moment...
...talents have been superbly supported by the smooth, articulate technicians of Whitehall. The government has not yet said when it will tear down the Foreign Office. Indeed, if it should change its mind and spare the old building, it could well argue that some of the world's wiliest diplomats have come from palazzos-if not from slums...