Word: conned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a strong propensity to believe in any flattering prophecy, even if the prophecy contradicts the more rational side of my mind. On the other hand, the Indian mystic wasn't a total con. This turbaned guru-of-sorts also told me that my only health problems would involve my digestive tract; three weeks later I was hospitalized for paratyphoid fever, also known as intestinal salmonella. So we'll suspend our skepticism for him, even though he tried to hawk his cure for AIDS to my physician mother so she could market it in the United States...
...Buchanan expressed his con- fidence that his victory in New Hampshire would start a campaign which would eventually win the White House...
...press and answered every question posed to her about her 1994 congressional campaign and related issues. She absolutely did not admit she lied about a transaction that enabled her to contribute what she believed to be personal funds to her campaign, nor was she "a knowing beneficiary of the con artist--who knows an easy mark is someone with a smidgen of larceny in her heart." By blaming Waldholtz, Carlson cruelly perpetuates a "blame the victim" mentality to explain the blatantly deceptive actions of the Representative's estranged husband and former campaign treasurer, Joe Waldholtz. For years, rape victims were...
...layoffs will occur due to the change, according to a regional Starbucks executive. In addition, seven Coffee Connection blends will con- tinue to be offered in stores and supermarkets...
...muddled: Look at me, poor Enid, fooled by Joe like so many others. Indeed, Joe scammed Enid and her father in the end (for $2 million more than went into her campaign), but that doesn't mean that she wasn't, in the beginning, a knowing beneficiary of the con artist--who knows an easy mark is someone with a smidgen of larceny in her heart. It was Enid who originally employed the "millionaire's loophole" in 1992, before she ever married Joe. Calling on a technique that figured prominently in her campaign-finance course at Brigham Young University, Enid...