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Every time a Soviet premier was ousted or a new man joined the Politburo, Western analysts spun fresh theories about who was up, who was down, why the chairs were being rearranged, and what those wily old Russians were up to.
The line itself is spoken by the wily Ulysses attempting to persuade Achilles to return to battle.
Buchanan also resurrects 75-year-old claims that the wily schemes of Wall Street financiers and munitions-makers plunged America into World War I. (And as Kaufman notes in the Weekly Standard , recent scholarship suggests Kaiser Wilhelm was more of a continental menace than previously recognized and that the war wasn't necessarily the "mistake" common wisdom once held it to be.)
Here's the story: The wily old veteran as wrecking ball, crashing into the infrastructure of today's 20-something, multi-millionaire, "What?
The dramatically rising cliff of black basalt stone made the castle impregnable to all but the most wily commander.
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