Word: cheated
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...hammer throw, Jack Fisher outdistanced his brother and big Tom White to win a third. The winner was Cheat Cruikshank, Captain of the Fort Devens team, who heaved the weight 157 feet, 9 and 15-16 inches...
...first U.S. experience with regimentation went well. With unlimited chance to cheat, there was little cheating. Several millions admitted hoarded sugar, had stamps subtracted or got no cards at all. News of the first week of U.S. rations...
...describe the delicate tones of this sport, an entire lexicon of terms has developed, based on local personalities and applicable imagery. General talk ranges from "pin cheat" (one who tilts the board) to the conventional club greeting: "How's your pinmanship?" Nickels are "legal tender" or "apaches"; quarters are "shingles." Scores are kept in "thous," and an especially unbeatable machine is a "Gottlieb masterpiece," named after the manufacturer...
...semi-fictional corner of Times Square inhabited by the scum of Broadway. In the pool hall and in Jollity Danceland, which largely support the building, Mr. Liebling is less interested than in the "Indians," the "heels" and the "tenants," who use it for their "promotions." To promote means to cheat anyone "of a dollar, or any fraction or multiple thereof." and the essence of praise in the Jollity Building is, "he has promoted some very smart people." Everyone there is busy promoting everyone else...
...House dances and chatted with on the lawns at Poughkeepsie. There's Flip, editor of the Vassar Review, who wants to write but isn't sure of her talent. Gary, once the child prodigy poetess, is now a harried girl facing expulsion for having tried to cheat her way into Phi Beta Kappa to fulfill her father's expectations. Jill, who is blonde and beautiful and brainless, wants the bright lights of the stage; Liz serious and restrained, wants the security of a wedding ring and a home. Lee, coldly calculating but warmly amorous, wants above...