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...fellow played a game of ping pong with me. He kept score and he didn't cheat or try to bully me over close calls. After I beat him, by two points, he shook my hand and said "good game" and went to shoot pool...
...issues involved in this campaign, and if they place ultimate responsibility for Britain's recession with the miners instead of where it belongs, they will find themselves with a policy that will continue to produce recession at the expense of the workers and they will help Heath cheat the miners out of a decent standard of life...
...ascetic swami, whose followers constitute a kind of saffron-robed Hindu version of the Salvation Army, began by saying, "You've got to decide whether he is God, or a dog." Noting the young leader's luxurious life style, the swami declared rather ominously, "He is cheating people, but he will be cheated in a bigger way. When God meets cheats, he can be a better cheat than they...
...Wattenscheid, Germany, on Nov. 11, 1920, second son of a one-armed Scottish engineer. Brought up mainly on the Continent, his only stint in England (at Eton, of course) was brief and unhappy. At age 18, James joined a British espionage unit, exposing first a sweaty Rumanian card cheat at the baccarat tables of Monte Carlo. After that, the jobs got more difficult. In 1940, for example, he killed a Japanese code breaker in New York by shooting him through a hole made earlier hi a thick window by his part ner's bullet...
...clearest examples of this is to be found in Cambridge's school system. The only book on Nixon, Helen Olds's Richard M. Nixon, in the King School library, glorifies "an honest lawyer who doesn't cheat people but helps them." And the Harrington School library's only book on Vietnam, Vietnam and the Countries of the Mekong, by Larry Henderson, openly justifies American imperialism in Asia...