Word: cheat
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...uncommon ability to spin a ball like a top, a "chucker"? Howard didn't hesitate: "Yes," he told supporters at a political function in rural Australia last month. Howard had, in effect, labeled the most successful bowler in cricket history and an icon in cricket-mad Sri Lanka, a cheat...
...Wheatstone Bridge-double differential CH3C6H2(NO2)3 set. These people are mere cogs; automata; they simply feel to make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...
...fund-raising letter to Ohio Republicans last year that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President next year." O'Dell, who has raised more than $100,000 for President Bush, said he didn't mean that he would use his machines to cheat in the election. But his statement helped fuel mushrooming conspiracy theories that evoting-machine vendors might precook election counts...
...cynicism. In every adult, one of the most tenacious stowaways from childhood is a fierce belief that life should be fair, people should be honest and justice should prevail. That’s why we cheer for the good guys and shake our fists at people who try to cheat the system...
...ways. We expect that laws will be enforced rigorously, and we demand the strictest punishment when others are caught being dishonest. But as individuals we’re always trying to slip through the cracks. We demand that the system be fair, as long as we ourselves can cheat. Like me: I insist on enforcing the strict interhouse rules that keep Leverett’s dining hall somewhat less crowded, and yet I complain with the best of them when I can’t get into Adams for lunch...