Word: cheating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cheat. Dangerfield, like his creator Donleavy, gets to Dublin's Trinity College as a student on the G.I. Bill of Rights. Unlike Brooklyn-born Writer Donleavy, a Navy vet who studied natural science at Trinity, Dangerfield is a spiv student of law who cheats at his exams, cheats on his wife Marion (whom he calls "a scheming slut"), cheats a succession of easy conquests, from barmaids to old maids. When one of them laments "It's adultery," Dangerfield comforts her: "One mortal sin is the same as another." He is the pest of the Coombe, Dublin...
Believing that the Russians could and would cheat on any disarmament promises, Physicist Teller feels that U.S. weakness would invite Communist aggression. "If we stay strong," he said recently, "then I believe we can have peace based on force. Peace based on force is not as good as peace based on agreement, but in the terrible world in which we live, it may be the only peace that we can have...
Since the AEC's Chairman Lewis Strauss firmly opposes any test-suspension agreement on the ground that the Russians would cheat, and influential Nuclear Physicist Edward Teller supports Strauss by insisting that they technically could cheat, the 2,050-mile mistake caused a flurry of accusations that the AEC had been doing some cheating itself. Hubert Humphrey all but accused Strauss & Co. of deliberately twisting truth. Asked the Strauss-baiting Washington Post and Times Herald: "Has the AEC been bending the scientific facts to suit a preconceived position...
Less happy was the Gaming Control Board. Although the Royal Nevada was licensed to gamble only until the last minute of 1957, it was still gambling last week, had not yet paid $30,000 for a new license. The board will push the original cheat charge, ask the Tax Commission to suspend the Royal Nevada for good...
...Cooperation, not competition, is the spirit of group dynamics. The only way a person can 'cheat' in a group dynamics situation is to fail to cooperate." ¶ "As the group develops a strong 'we feeling' and gains experience in the group process, the teacher moves more and more out of the function as a leader. The ultimate is when the teacher is no longer the leader...