Word: conned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neither the economic nor the human success of the program is achieved without some hardship. Says Boston's NAB director, Joe Breiteneicher: "You've got to get whites already on the job to work alongside the black, the ex-con, the dropout, and we're often sending them all three in one." The new employees are sometimes met with hostility: a Negro in Boston was run down by a fork lift, another was felled by a dropped pallet...
...Zone, thus violating the tacit agreement that North Viet Nam would respect the inviolability of the DMZ in return for the halt. There have been several such violations confirmed so far. In the most serious, Communist 122-mm. rocket and 75-mm. artillery fire killed five U.S. Marines at Con Thien and wounded 46. The U.S. retaliated with fire in each incident...
...Humphrey had risen from a low of 28% in the Gallup poll and 31% in the Harris rating to 40% in both, with Nixon placed by both surveys at 42%. Next day, in a move that led Nixon aides to charge that onetime Democratic Pollster Harris was trying to con the voters, Harris claimed that Humphrey had taken a 43-40 lead...
...They call me Tricky Dickie," he says, cheeks puffed out and slitty eyes shifting back and forth like a street-corner con artist. "But I can't imagine why. I've got 70% of the popular vote. I've got two good arms, two good legs and two good faces-and I intend to take them to the public...
...write something from an interview with a professional con man. I need more than those sweety questions.... Sock some nasties to him. You're a young radical, straight from Columbia...