Word: conned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Madeleine Morton, owner of the best restaurant in Saigon, the Guillaume Tell, greeted her customers. "I am trying to go to Bridgeport, Con-nec-ticut," she announced. At 12:20 two black buses finally arrived and were quickly filled...
...Burt Reynolds) is a backwoods con man with a predilection for ripping off gas stations belonging to an oil company that has done him wrong in some unspecified way. The Dixie Dancekings are a musical organization that operates about as far up country as you can get without actually becoming a hermit. The former joins the latter -uninvited-as a ploy to elude a cop who has trailed him into a roadhouse where the Dancekings are playing. W.W. has no difficulty persuading the law that he is the group's manager. He goes on to convince the group that...
...them and appropriate for their educational goals. This will require even more alumni effort than we have generated up to now--efforts which are perhaps more intensively directed and which incorporate more recent graduates from minority backgrounds. Alumni efforts alone, however, will never be effective unless there is a con-current effort from Cambridge. The admissions staff must become more effective in organizing alumni efforts and providing information and leads for reaching new schools and candidates. Students and faculty must also help both as auxiliaries to the recruiting efforts and more particularly by improving the image which Harvard projects...
...happy turning translucent"). His English is improvised, but he ad-libs gamely on discovering that his model for "how to tell a live clam" is quite dead. When he despairs over potholes in his pastry dough, Margaret comforts him: "pastry and pasta are always volatile." Their show is cooking con brio, best enjoyed with a hearty glass of country red and one of the Romagnolis' toasts from old Abruzzi: "I'll drink to your big feet...
...still not been announced. Government ministers said that the new Cabinet, like the outgoing one, would be predominantly military with perhaps a larger representation of Communists, who formerly held two posts. One rumored change was that Mario Soares, the Socialist leader, might lose his post as Foreign Minister, although Conçalves was believed likely to keep him in the Cabinet in some position...