Word: dishonestly
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Hoffa continued to crawl. He saw nothing wrong, he said, about the conflicting interests he had been maintaining; he admitted that a dishonest union boss might take advantage of business deals and loans made with employers of truck drivers, but fortunately for the Teamsters, Hoffa protested, he is an honorable man. But he could not recall, for example, where he had borrowed part of $20,000 that he had invested in one company; neither could he remember why he borrowed $5,000 from a businessman who had a Teamster contract...
...reported statement by Morse that Dwight Eisenhower and skidded Teamsters Union Boss Dave Beck are "the same kind of immoralists"-Beck for pickpocketing his union members, Ike for pickpocketing U.S. taxpayers. A shouting duel ensued. Declaring ex-Republican Morse a turncoat, Capehart cried that any such man is "intellectually dishonest and immoral." In rebuttal, Morse shouted that portly Homer Capehart is "a tub of rancid ignorance." Embarrassed by the rule-breaking spat in public, other Senators also joined in the shouting as peacemakers. Finally Wayne Morse proposed that the most intemperate salvo of his cannonade be stricken from the minutes...
...Parker in an attempt to lever Cohen into naming bribed politicians. That touched Cohen off again: "I'm going to give him much to bring a libel suit against me. He's nothing but a thief that has been-a reformed thief . . . This man here is as dishonest politically as the worst thief that accepts money for payoffs . . . He is a known alcoholic. He's been disgusting. He's an old degenerate. In other words, he's a sadistic degenerate of the worst type ... He has a man underneath him that is on an equal...
Medford Evans, a former member of the AEC, alleged that "more than one or two lies are involved." He termed Oppenheimer "intellectually dishonest," and said that he had not lied to protect his friends, but had "sold them...
Rugged, tall (5 ft. 11 in.), plainspeaking, Magsaysay was indefatigably energetic and incorruptibly honest ("My parents taught me to be a good Christian. Do you know of any good Christian who is dishonest?"). He was a blacksmith's son, who came out of the Zambales mountains to work as a chauffeur and mechanic to pay for his mechanical engineering studies at the University of the Philippines. He fought the Japanese as a guerrilla, at war's end commanded an army of 10,000 men-but was especially proud of his U.S. Army rank as a captain...