Word: conned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rock-hard 213½ Ibs. His measurements in fact differed in only one respect from those taken at his last fight in 1967: he had added 1 Jin. to his biceps. "I'm hitting much harder and sharper now," Ali boasted. It sounded like the old Cassius con, but his manager, Angelo Dundee, was quick to agree: "He's so close to being the Ali of 3½ years ago that it's scary...
Liberal Sen. Albert Gore, the main target of the Republican "Southern strategy," went down to defeat in a fairly close race in Tennessee. In his con-cession speech last night, Gore promised that "the truth shall rise again." His opponent, conservative William Brock III, was one of the largest benefactors of Republican financial aid; Gore has served in the House and Senate for 32 years...
...ously, Matsushita is prepared to lose money initially. He can afford to. At 75, and still chairman of the board at Matsushita Electric, he has a personal income of $2,500,000 a year. Even his taxes do not bother him any more When a mountain is high," he con cluded some years ago, "the valleys must be deep...
There are three true folk heroes, though. The first is Tommy the RedHaired Kid. Tommy's love is newspapers. Sometimes he goes into Kaminar's to buy newspapers and then sells them a day later for an extra nickel. I remember seeing him con a guy out of his car at a green light in the center of town so that the guy could get the money out for yesterday's paper...
...last seven months I, a free wild man, have been locked in P.O.W. camps. No living creature can survive in a cage. In my flight to freedom, I leave behind a million Brothers and Sisters in the P.O.W. prisons of Quentin, Soledad, Con Thier...