Word: deviously
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...That was incentive enough ; for Hagman to make J.R. into the most unusual bad guy in the history of TV villainy. Like all those dudes he met when he was with his daddy, he speaks softest when he is at his meanest and smiles before he pounces; the more devious he gets, the more sincere he seems...
...beaches in 1958, despite Foster Dulles' fondness for leaning far out over the brink, Eisenhower kept the nation out of war. In Nixon Agonistes, Garry Wills called Ike "a political genius." Nixon, for his part, recorded in his Six Crises that Eisenhower "was a far more complex and devious man than most people realized, and in the best sense of those words." (Those phrases may be the purest elixir of Nixon's thought that was ever bottled...
...good deal of evidence that DMSO may be effective as a short-term painkiller, but there is no scientific proof that it reduces swelling and inflammation. We advise arthritis victims not to listen to the DMSO siren song and not to try to get the drug by some devious means...
...numbers, the delegate counts and the geography suggest that those post-Illinois deductions are likely to stand up through August and that it will indeed be Carter vs. Reagan in November. But that does not mean that the voters have abandoned being devious, unruly and indecently unpredictable, in the view of the working press, as last week's New York and Connecticut primaries demonstrated. Again the headline writers had to unlimber their stuns, surprises and upsets to report Kennedy's trouncing of Carter in both states and Bush's beating of Reagan in Connecticut. As late...
...Shepherd Mead's satire How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, officeworkers are so committed to devious little games and personality conflicts that everyone seems to have forgotten what it is that the company produces and sells. In fact, a good deal of fiction has depicted the office as a war zone of neurotic combat. But according to Management Consultant Robert M. Bramson, 54, who studies such matters, that concept is unfair. Only 10% of officeworkers are relentlessly difficult, says Bramson, and anyone can learn how to cope with this troublesome minority...