Word: conning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Switzerland's 22 cantons last week, this bulwark of the Swiss way of life was meeting its supreme test: the first nationwide referendum on whether women should vote. Typically, the campaigning -both pro and con-was conducted with sobriety, even with somnolence. No suffragettes surged in milling thousands through the streets; there were no feminist rallies, no raised voices. Even the potent Frauenverein, the women's organization responsible for the lack of alcohol and night life in Zurich, only went as far as to say that it was "not against" women's voting. The liberal newspaper Neue...
...recent years, this College has just carried the system of coddling athletes to a nefarious extreme. Whose blood does not boil just a little when he sits down to his chili con carne at the House and thinks of those husky behemoths in their ivied retreat masticating on quantities of chateaubriand and Double Lamb chops...
...Con...
...management and labor. Management has simply thrown in the sponge and adopted the motto: "If you can't beat them, join them." The closed shop smacks of ostracism if not outright violence. No skilled artisan wishes to become a mere tool, the slave of the type of ex-con who has lately wormed himself into labor leadership...
...cosmic questions, Mr. Capote plays the famous writer's familiar con-game. To hear the successful writer tell it, they've never heard of Jung or symbols or aesthetic theories, and they profess an admirable ignorance when confronted with such things. "I am merely trying to tell a story in the best way I can," said Capote. "Writers don't think consciously about symbols. I doubt whether Kafka ever thought about the symbolic significances of his stories. He was just trying to tell a story...