Word: cheated
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...began affecting frock coats in order to look like a politico. He poured out $1,500,000 in an unsuccessful try for the 1904 Democratic nomination for President. Next year he actually won the New York mayoralty in a bloody election, only to see Tammany rig the count and cheat him out of his victory. In 1906, he was defeated by Charles Evans Hughes for the governorship of New York. In 1922, still nursing a political ambition that reached all the way to the White House, he made his last cast for office, began a campaign for the Democratic nomination...
...long ominous walk from the cell to the examining room,hands pinned back. Dry-mouthed with anxiety, Stypulkowski might find Tichonov cajoling or coercive but never twice in a row the same. "You German hireling!" (or sometimes, "British spy"), he would rant. "Don't try to cheat the Soviet Union. . . We know everything." Or, satan-smooth at 3 a.m.: "How are you, sir? Sorry I woke you ... Are you really so well off here that you want to prolong your stay indefinitely? We are only interested in getting ... the facts . . . [then] you will return home to work...
...would ever miss the man who slipped out for a few beers or a movie. Before long the word got around Boston's pool halls and political clubs that the long, grimy building down by South Station offered splendid opportunities for anyone with the urge to cheat the Government out of a paycheck...
...jackass, cad, caddishness, scurrilous, vicious vulgar, dishonest, swine, corrupt, criminal, blether (as applied to a speech), Pecksniffian cant. Last week the fifteenth edition of "Erskine May" was published; it showed four new epithets barred since the war's end: not a damned one of you opposite, stool pigeons, cheat, bastard...
...believe that if he had more understanding at home and his wife would stop nagging, he'd be all right; and the wife's defenders, who see what a wreck he is making of her and who are convinced that Bill is a pathological liar, a cheat, and incapable of real affection for anybody but himself." The family's chief job, Anderson suggests, is to help the alcoholic find an interest to replace the alcohol, and to enter into it with him-even if it bores them to death...