Word: wiliest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...calling elections this summer; legally, he can wait until next July. The constitutional package, however, may breathe new popularity into Trudeau's ten-year-old government; in that case the September constitutional conference might be an ideal launching pad for a campaign. One of his country's wiliest political survivors, Trudeau is aware that the voters have what the Canadian Gallup poll calls a love-hate relationship with him. The pollsters found that 43% of Canadians, for example, disapprove of the way their Prime Minister is doing his job, while only 41% approve. But when asked to choose...
Benito Cereno Wallace. The wiliest slave on the slaveship gets a letter from a fellow passenger. It is signed...
...Faulkner is one of the wiliest practitioners of Irish politics, and a fairly recent convert to the moderates. As Prime Minister in 1971, he took a tough line against the Irish Republican Army, which resulted in harsh crackdowns on the Catholic community and the ruthless policy of interning suspected terrorists. Those tactics led to a complete breakdown in security and the assumption of direct rule by Britain. Last spring, however, Faulkner campaigned for a new constitution calling for power-sharing between the majority Protestants and minority Catholics. The measure passed, and led to the formation of an eleven-man coalition...
...assorted characters in the sordid Watergate cast, Charles Colson was widely viewed in Washington as the wiliest, the slickest operator and thus the least likely to be charged with a crime. So quick to deny any personal wrongdoing, so voluble in defending the innocence of the President, Colson often seemed to be protesting too much. Federal prosecutors apparently thought so too. TIME has learned that the former White House special counsel not only may be among the first former officials to be indicted by Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox's grand jury but that he is under investigation...
Essentially, The Teachings and A Separate Reality were about the strategy by which Don Juan, one of the wiliest and most subtle men ever to live in print, used hallucinogens to reveal his descriptions of reality to Castaneda and so turn him into a man of knowledge himself. As a result, the books were greeted as landmarks by the counterculture. Indeed they are-but they are not "drug literature...