Word: doubledealing
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His evasion did not dispel curiosity; it doubled it. The obvious inference was that Commander Crabb had been employed by some secret arm of the government. Whatever the intelligence agency hoped to learn under the Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze was plainly not worth the risk of being caught at it. The...
The Mills team checked 1,910 men and women and tracked down 531 recent deaths from lung cancer (with which they lumped cancers of nearby parts of the respiratory tract). They arrived at this breakdown: regardless of where a man lives, the smoking of pipes and cigars doubles or triples...
In the past year the number of prize graduate fellowships won by Notre Dame students has gone up 2%, and scholarships have doubled since the war. Hesburgh abolished the law school's easygoing elective system, toughened the curriculum so much that enrollments slumped from 243 in 1953 to 141...
The low prices, however, are only a partial explanation for the great shift in eating habits that turned Americans from pork to beef eating (13.6 lbs. of beef for every eleven of pork). Another reason is the increasing efficiency of cattlemen at breeding and feeding, which has not only turned...
In Britain, the government and the public executors of the estate of Playwright George Bernard Shaw agreed on the value of his copyrights, thus nearly doubled the provisional worth of his estate that was set in 1951. The new figure: $1,680,000, subject to whopping inheritance taxes in the...