Word: conning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...couldn't run a gas station at a profit even if he stole the customers' cars," bungles the operation and then sets out to knock off Baccala and his gang. Caught in the crossfire is a ludicrous love interest between Palumbo's sister and an artistic con man imported from Italy to take part in the aborted bike race...
Watson, in his original testimony con-cerning the incident, stated, "A group of people grabbed me and started to shove me out of the building. I recognized one as Offner, who was holding my right arm. They shoved me against a wall of people with enough force to knock several of them down...
...them is Prudence, or Diferetion. It is faid, Pfal. 112.5. A good Manfbeweth F?vour, and lenderb; be will guide his Affairs with Difererion, (or Judgment). Now this Prudence is an Habit of the Mind, inabling a good Man to dis?ose of bis outward Affairs, in the most con??odi??s man?er. It is not that carnal Subtilly, which teaches a Man to get an Eftate by hook or crook; but that godly Wifdom, which is confiftent with a good Confcience. When the Apoftle, James 3.17. mentions the Wisdom which is from above; he plainly implies that there...
...Harvard CRIMSON touch football team rolled to its 73rd con-ecutive undefeated season yesterday with a 23-2 win over an undermanned and outplayed Yale Daily squad. Behind the passing of quarterback Tom Southwick, brought off the bench in the last three minutes of the game and the hand and moves of Mike Barrett, he Crimeds came from behind to swamp the stunned and previously unbeaten Elis...
...about personal freedom," soberly explains Director Tom O'Horgan, a chichi con artist from off-off-Broadway. "It's about the responsibility of freedom." Futi might also just as well be a propaganda film for the anti-Anti-Vivisection Society, a moving plea for the tolerance of sodomists, or a fearless indictment of soil erosion. It makes no difference, and neither, really, does the movie. Based on Rochelle Owens' play and enacted by a group of wildly undisciplined shock troops who call themselves the La Mama Repertory Troupe,* Futz is merely a piece of fraudulent and fearsomely...