Word: cheate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fall," Professor Roorbach continued, "without continuing or even deepening the present depression and long delaying recovery. One thing is probable, and that is that if the debts are not substantially reduced, or even cancelled, some of them, at least, will be repudiated, not because of any wilfull desire to cheat the United States, but by virtue of the inability of the debator nations to pay. The result of repudiation would create a world-wide feeling of suspicion and uncertainty, which would long delay the economic recovery of the nations...
...indignation soon found a spokesman in the New York Sun. Cried the Sun: ''Well, those English can pull our legs at peace conferences, do us in the eye in disarmament treaties and help Europe cheat us out of War Debt billions; they can call us dollar-chasers, jazz maniacs and Prohibition hypocrites, but they can't call our robin not a robin and our grey squirrel...
...remain at Saint Saturnin, apparently plans ,to marry her. The children get rid of Ninette but it does them little good. Their father takes up with a succession of trained nurses, asks each one to be his wife. With imperious disregard for dignity, he lets a village shyster cheat him out of the family fortune. Furious at his children's well-meant attempts to interfere, he gives orders for workmen to tear down his chateau, remodel it to suit his whims. He walks through his woods dressed in a smock painted to look like leaves, puts a green napkin...
...force developed a Macchi seaplane powered by two Fiat 1,500 h.p. engines in tandem. To fly it. Air Minister Italo Balbo delegated a new pilot named Neri, a minuscule man whose exploits since he joined the force a short time ago earned him the nickname "Death Cheat...
...measured course. Electric timing cameras caught him at 430 m.p.h. as he entered his last lap. Then, with an official world record within a few miles of his grasp, Lieut. Nerfs plane shot askew of its course. One of the flippers had been wrenched from its tail. "Death Cheat" Neri kept his ship in control, landed safely...