Word: cheating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game lived there; no food could be found in the cheat grass and grotesque lava beds. In places the river gorge cut so deep that voyagers could not get down to the water. At times Indians pounced; in 1862 they ambushed a caravan of 25 Iowa families, killing nine settlers and scalping...
...Angeles hoodlum named Joseph and Mary Rivas, who graduated from "switch knives, snap guns . . . and, for the very poor, socks loaded with sand" to ownership of the Lee Chong Grocery, and now keeps busy trying to figure out a way to cheat at chess...
...room patrol is an interesting thought, but hardly feasible because there are so many other ways to cheat the Company...
...these former methods lack widespread appeal in that they only cheat the Telephone Company of a few nickels. Because a good crook gets more pleasure out of ruining his friends, the "Crossed Wires" gag provides lots of laughs for those who know its secrets. By crossing the wires inside a phone in a special way, one can charge his long distance calls to the other person on the party line...
...first time, began withdrawing their children from the competition. Richard Glover, a University of Manitoba history professor, took his eleven-year-old goldfish son out of the choir line-up for this spring's festival. Said Glover: "His reaction was that his school just wanted him to cheat the referee. I think he was right...