Word: conned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Although a reactor cannot sustain a nuclear explosion, the presence of many hundreds of tons of material which is one billion times more toxic than any known industrial substance is an unparalleled hazard, especially during fuel replacement. Such replacement is an extraordinarily delicate operation and, in the case of Con Edison's Indian Point ?I plant at Buchanan, N. Y., took six weeks during which 40 of the 120 fuel elements were removed, each weighing nearly four tons...
...charged, God knows. At their worst-and how often they are!-they seem to address the world through a bad PA system. Does it matter what they actually say? They capture your attention, right? They are word manipulators-the carnival barkers of life who misuse language to pitch and con and make the quick kill...
...Con Edison can be fined for contaminating the Hudson. Legislation can force Detroit to clean up automobile exhausts. What can one do to punish the semantic aphasics for polluting their native language? None of man's specialties of self-destruction-despoliation of the environment, overpopulation, even war-appear more ingrained than his gift for fouling his mother tongue. Yet nobody dies of semantic aphasia, and by and large it gets complained about with a low-priority...
...with his usual mix of con and conviction, plays up the disparities at every turn. "I'm not just fightin' one man,"; he preaches. "I'm fightin' a lot of men, showin' a lot of 'em here is one man they couldn't conquer. My mission is to bring freedom to 30 million black people. I'll win this fight because I've got a cause. Frazier has no cause. He's in it for the money alone." Caught in the crossfire, Frazier usually backs off. "I don't want to be no more than no more than what...
...Con Son prison was in the news last July when two American congressmen found the "tiger cages" which had been kept secret for years by the Vietnamese government. The "tiger cages" visited by Congressmen William Anderson (D-Tenn.) and Augustus Hawkins (D-Calif.) were built by prison labor in 1939 under the direction of the French...