Word: conned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sorry you did not save the "Con Man of the Year" award for George Wallace. He has conned many Americans into believing that freedom, equality and justice can be compromised by bigotry, racism and inhumanity to one's fellow...
Foxx, at 49 the dean of black comedians, might have been preparing all his raffish life for the role of Junkman Fred Sanford. "He's an old black dude, and he don't take no stuff," explains Foxx. "He's a con artist. He thinks up elaborate, wily tricks, and I enjoy him." Most of his tricks are directed against his son Lament (Demond Wilson) to keep him from marrying and leaving home. One girl friend, Foxx assures the boy, would end up like her mother, "King Kong in bloomers." He is constantly complaining about his nonexistent...
...Feldberg closes his piece by resorting to cliches to suggest that Ed Muskie is the candidate of the "tough cigar-chomping con men" and bosses. This type of smear is unsubstantiated, deceitful and even smacks of desperation...
...political orators of the time, of course the late Malxolm X perhaps being the most prominent, began to argue very strenuously that it wasn't a matter of men of good will coming together. It wasn't a matter of agreeing on some kind of a universal con. It wasn't a matter of moral sussion. The problem was basically a question of power and control. And what that meant for black students was who is going to define, in sort of broad terms...
...another explanation for the new Muskie tactics is gaining currency: that the calm, soft-spoken advisors who have guided Muskie through 20 years of Maine politics are being phased out of the political side of the campaign by the tough, cigar-chomping con men who always flock to the Democratic frontrunner. This crowd of hustlers, so artfully described by Norman Mailer in his portrait of the Humphrey campaign in 1968, is increasingly in evidence around Muskie, 1972's premier candidate of the Establishment. It could be that the George Mitchell's and Dom Nicoll's who so expertly aided Muskie...