Word: conning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...still dese, dem and dose types," says Speech Professor Bernard Barrow of Brooklyn College. "It is very difficult today to know a Brooklyn boy from a Bronx boy." Even The Bridge has lost its mystique. Not for three years, at least, the police report somewhat sadly, has a con man tried to sell...
...result of the ecumenical interchange, the seminaries have turned from indoctrination to information, treating the ideas of men from different faiths not as heresies to be refuted but as insights to be appreciated. Union's Driver, for example, expects to face the same kind of pro-and-con debate about Tillich's theology at Fordham that he currently faces at Union...
...responsible for the hit-and-run death of his daughter, and the judge was a bum driver-certainly enough circumstantial evidence to suit anybody. After a lifetime of scrutinizing the criminal mind, Milland is such a right honorable chump that he harbors on his own staff an ex-con who spent 15 years preparing the frame-up to revenge himself on both judge and barrister. Enough clues turn up at the Old Bailey to fill a telephone book, and leafing through them is just as exciting...
...Con Among the Pros...
Most heartening to conservationists was the commission's condemnation of Consolidated Edison's plan for a huge hydroelectric power plant at the base of brooding Storm King Mountain, at the famed north gate to the majestic Hudson Highlands.* Governor Rockefeller, who had earlier supported the $162 million Con Ed project, backed off after his brother criticized it, said that "if another solution can be found, it should be." The commission chided local government for failure to request federal beautification and urban-renewal money, noted that the latter could open up rotting waterfronts and create little "fishermen...