Word: cheated
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...hear the writers tell it. all writers have bad characters, if indeed they have any character at all. Matricides may be dealt with kindly in novels, an author may find a spark of good in a drug-addicted card cheat or a grasping banker, and it is an immutable law that prostitutes' hearts are warm. But let a novelist introduce a wretch whose vice is writing novels, and there begins a recital of character faults that would have horrified Caligula: the fellow is meanspirited, lazy, a coward, lustful but inept at sex. soggy with drink, cruel to his children...
...proposal was a serious one, it could mean that the recent U.S. test series has convinced Washington that the West's nuclear position is now unassailable. An unpoliced ban gives Russia a built-in temptation to cheat; in a closed society, the lengthy preparations needed to plan a new test series can be effectively concealed. U.S. Delegate Arthur Dean conceded the risks. Said he: "The U.S. would have to step up its own detection network, including observation satellites." But the West now seems more perturbed by the uncontrolled spread of nuclear weapons. Declared Dean: "Having no test...
...ringing, jubilant tone that is the joy of Bach lovers-and of Michael Haydn and Leopold Mozart fans as well. Of all the pieces he plays, the toughest is the Brandenburg No. 2: in the upper range it soars to G above high C, and wise conductors almost always cheat on the trumpet part and make do with an E-flat clarinet or a soprano saxophone. As distinguished a musician as the Vienna Philharmonic's Helmuth Wobisch has been known to enlist a second trumpeter to negotiate the concerto's lower passages while he concentrated on the high...
...been getting more than a million dollars a year in price-support loans on cotton. Another irony is that, while supposedly helping to preserve old-fashioned rural virtues, price-support programs tend to make U.S. farmers dependent on the Government and put before them abundant temptations to cheat. Also, while the Government is trying to curb farm production, it is simultaneously fostering increased production through research, distribution of free fertilizer, and so forth...
...title) appears suddenly out of a storm, seeking refuge in an inn for medieval pilgrims to the Holy Land. Somewhere upstairs are the rich Christians, with their finery and servants. But the pilgrims among whom the stranger finds himself are a rabble. Some are drunk. Others rob and cheat each other. One girl finances her pilgrimage by sleeping with whichever pilgrim has the price...