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Word: conning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...con started in early October, when the man approached a first-year in the Yard and identified himself as a first-year Harvard Law School student. The two chatted and ended up exchanging e-mail addresses...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Police Hunt for Homeless Intruder | 10/19/1999 | See Source »

...alleged con artist used the alias Seamus O'Reilly. Harvard University Police (HUPD) described O'Reilly as a 6-foot white male with brown hair, who spoke with an Irish accent...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Police Hunt for Homeless Intruder | 10/19/1999 | See Source »

...con came to an end Saturday night, after the student and a friend went out to dinner with O'Reilly...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Police Hunt for Homeless Intruder | 10/19/1999 | See Source »

...match made in Hollywood heaven. Robbie, the irrepressible con man, vs. Evon (her cover name), a repressed Mormon with an Olympic bronze medal. In what sport? Don't ask. Turow seeds his story with delayed disclosures and surprises, including an inspired variation on one of dramaturgy's soundest rules: if you show a dangerous implement in the first act, it must be used in the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pay His Honor | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...much a Hong Kong woman paid two con men for 430 stomach tablets to cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Oct. 18, 1999 | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

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