Word: conning
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...meeting dragged on, European Communists began busily to plant abroad the notion that Khrushchev had persuaded the majority to stick with peaceful coexistence for the next months while he sizes up the policies of President-elect John Kennedy. This had all the earmarks of a calculated leak designed to con the West into accepting Khrushchev as its favorite Communist. So did the report that Chairman Liu had boasted that his country now has four nuclear reactors in operation and will soon explode its first atom bomb. Once again, Moscow appeared to be trying to use the threat of China...
McCloskey will head the nine man committee which was created by the Faculty at its last meeting. He said yesterday that the report would probably not be "any deep empirical look at the matter, but an assembling of the arguments pro and con." In this respect he compared the proposed report to a set of lawyer's beliefs, rather than an attempted solution of the issues...
...high altitudes in the snow, Sir Edmund was almost ready to give up the hunt when, according to a letter just received by the expedition's sponsor (Chicago's Field Enterprises Educational Corp.). he happened upon a bearlike skin that his Sherpa guides -who may be con men of the highest-altitude order-swore to be the hide of a large Snowman. Wrote Mountaineer Hillary: ''We regard it as a particularly significant exhibit." Australia's hearty Prime Minister Robert Menzies has often been upbraided and spoofed by Down Under fashion arbiters for his addiction...
...appalled -at discovering that his own values were unfashionable there. So, in 1951, Buckley produced a bestselling book called God and Man at Yale. It accused the Yale faculty, in sweeping terms, of teaching along anti-Christian and anticapitalistic lines. God and Man at Yale became a pro and con reference point for political eggheads of both the left and right...
...drunk at Saint-Malo." If Prendergast felt the sting, he left no record of it. His brush became still looser, his rhythms more intricate, his outlines so subtle that his paintings almost began to look as if they had been woven. But for all their technical innovations, his works con tinued to reflect a childlike world eternally at play...