Word: conned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking like something out of an old Warner Bros. gangster film, hulking Ted Rij, Racketeer Johnny Dio's ex-bodyguard, slurred through the Fifth more than 35 times: "Standin' on my Con'stutional right, I 'cline to answer on grounds o' 'crimination." Woebegone, egg-bald Sam Zakman provided a sharply etched picture of a disillusioned Communist and displaced labor-racket boy. Zakman also provided the rare commodity of humor in describing Union Organizer Benny ("The Bug") Ross: "There's a fellow who did everything wrong, but he organized better than all of them...
...Edison Co., one of the nation's biggest gas and electric companies (2,755,000 customers, $523 million annual revenue), replacing Harland C. Forbes, 59, who moves up to board chairman. A self-taught financial expert, whose formal schooling ended after two years of high school, Eble joined Con Ed in 1916 as a "corridor boy," sandwiching in two years of correspondence courses from the Alexander Hamilton Institute between chores. Shifted to the accounting department, Eble was an assistant comptroller in 1935, became a vice president four years ago. An important target as president: financing a $650 million expansion...
...regime which in seven years has promoted five foreign or civil wars-Korea, Indo-China, Tibet, the Philippines and Malaya; which itself has fought the U.N. and which today stands condemned by the U.N. as an aggressor; which defies the U.N. decision to reunify Korea; which openly proclaims its con tinuing purpose to use force-should that regime be given a permanent seat...
...renunciation. But here, rarely a laugh or cry, rarely the truly different. Walk along the river some warm evening.... very few people alone, thinking, worrying, wondering. Only the loving couples, a few retired professors on the benches, and a tired dog. See the species pre-media, the impersonal, mark-con-scious eyes and the pale, insipid faces. Peek into the Bick.... the white-sneaker crowd, sipping flat coffee with their flat conversation...
...finish his mission until he can talk to the Red Chinese. He cannot talk to them until the United States recognizes them, and the United Nations cannot negotiate with them until America agrees to admit them to the U.N. Laying aside all the legalistic and moralistic arguments pro and con recognition of Red China, it becomes apparent that even expediency dictates American recognition of Red China and its admission to the United Nations...