Again, if we were left independent, it was only because they thought they saw their way to empire more clearly by specious language and by the paths of policy than by those of force.
An original specious story by none other than Zoe Barnes, of course, loosely tying Mr. Kern to an anti-Israel editorial that ran in the college paper he edited.
But his pretrial research did include reading a specious treatise by George Rekers, the antigay evangelist now notorious for his recent 10-day European trip with a young male companion procured from Rentboy.com.
Andy Pettitte has undermined that specious claim by saying in his deposition for the Congressional committee that the same Randy Hendricks, also his agent, told him that Mitchell had requested a meeting with him.
The longer we stay away from the moon – it's been more than 40 years since the last moonwalk – the more tempting it becomes for us to think that the Apollo programme, which got there between 1963 and 1972, was some kind of specious propaganda by the US government.
Nunn's embarrassment was compounded by the fact that a lot of people had written back to him refusing, or even more disconcertingly, accepting his gushing "offers" of work on Snoo Wilson's Little Dorrit or Michael Bogdanov's equally specious Sketches By Boz.
They encourage people to avoid specious entries by offering more targeted analysis to people providing more information, which in turn enhances the data they already have.
