Word: maneuverable
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Not knowing just what to do, the girl betakes herself abroad to her mother. The maneuver proves to be illadvised. Her mother is in no sense qualified to give moral aid and comfort. She is magnificently free from morality. While Joyce was still a child, the mother had run away...
At Yale the situation is slightly complicated. President Angell attempted to make the Student Council take up the problem of undergraduate drinking, but his maneuver met with unfortunate results. In addressing the freshman class he announced that expulsion would follow the defection of any violation of the rule forbidding liquor...
Then Mr. Mellon asked the country : " Which will you have-tax cut or bonus ? " " Tax cut! " shouted the business man. " Bonus! " shouted the American Legion in a voice that was large before but now seemed small by comparison. It behooved politicians to about face. The maneuver was delicate.
When it came to explaining the motive behind the alleged bull manipulation of the stock market, however, wide differences of opinion were expressed. Some were im pressed with the maneuver chiefly as a drive against the "short interest," which was believed to be large. Others pointed out that 1924 was...
2) That Quezon, a clever magpie of a politician, is executing a local political maneuver.