Word: bilked
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...Arizona gives it a twist. This is the land of swimming pools and cacti, and the O.K. Corral was 80 years ago. But Phoenix has grown in population almost 1300 per cent since 1950, it's a new center for white collar crime--the new "Florida" for criminals who bilk the public in shady land deals...
Carter denounced the tacky deal as "a misleading scheme designed to bilk the public" and "gross commercialization." Undeterred, Investor J.D. Clements of Americus, Ga., boasted that he and his associates could make as much as $15 million in the event that all the land is bought. The group also has an option on another ten acres next to the Carter warehouse. Moreover, Clements said, Mrs. Spann stands to "get a percentage of everything we sell over the original half acre." It was a disagreeable bit of business for Jimmy, but hardly more than a tiny speck...
...journalists regarding Nixon's trip to China [Feb. 16] as a mystery? Nixon will emerge as a lobbyist for China to plug for such things as "most favored nation" status, huge loans and all the other sweet deals that ultimately bilk the U.S. taxpayer...
President Charles William Eliot's personal papers, released this year on the fiftieth anniversary of Eliot's death, show that Eliot tried in 1903 to bilk the financier J. Pierpont Morgan out of nearly a quarter of a million dollars to finance the construction of Harvard Medical School buildings...
...movie, set in Chicago and environs during the '30s, concerns a sophomore con man (Redford), a grizzled veteran con man (Newman) and their extravagant scheme to bilk a big-money hoodlum from New York (Robert Shaw). There is a tangle of subplots, some slothful suspense and an ending of telegraphed surprise...