Word: deviously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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University men who remained in Cambridge over the Fourth found devious means of marking the holiday...
What Lowell House investigators might have found to criticize had they been more single-minded in their effort to help the food saving plan would be the devious execution of the program by University officials closely connected with the dining halls. Showing no conception of the spirit of the campaign, they have included more costly, and sometimes superfluous fruit to substitute for salad at dessertless meals, and have absurdly insisted on offering margarine and jam when there is no bread. In contrast, higher administrative officials for the most part have cooperated to the fullest and have turned over...
...just literary exercises in devious plot & counterplot; a few are plotless casuals of Jews at home, at work & play; but most of them employ a simple plot to make a simple point-the joy, or sadness, or mystery of living...
Ofttimes Haligonians took more devious routes to get a drink. They dropped in at smelly, slummy Grafton Street dives for a quick and illegal snort, or paid bootleggers anywhere from $8 to $20 for straight-from-the-still "Tiger Sweat...
When in doubt, many a Hearstpaper's editor turns to the New York Journal-American, favorite of "The Chief," to get his cues. A handy day-by-day echo of W.R.'s policies and moods, it accurately calls his often devious signals. The tabloid Mirror, its morning cousin, can usually hear the quarterback best, being closest. But last week Hearst's Manhattan running mates got their signals crossed...