Word: cons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite such restrictions, the winter leagues manage to comb the majors for all the talent they can get. This month, as the southern season got under way, a traveling ball fan could recognize familiar names. The Yankees' Willie Miranda and the Senators' Con Marrero were playing for Cuba's Almendares. The White Sox's Chico Carrasquel was in Caracas. In Santurce, P.R., fans were being treated to the antics of the Giants' incomparable Willie Mays...
Besides the breaks, Dartmouth also had Beagle. If the junior quarterback had any failing it was a refusal to pass frequently enough. Beagle completed ten out of 15 including two touchdown passes. Considering the effectiveness of the Crimson line Beagle called a very con- servative game, conceding the offensive initiative to the chance of a dangerous interception. This tightly conceived and executed game eventually paid off for the Green, but had thing gone differently, the fourth quarter would have seen a burst of passes, and the post game press conference might have seen a rueful Tuss McLaughry, again vowing that...
...Italy of Fermi's youth was Mus solini's Italy. At first Fascism was merely silly, but as it grew, Fermi began to con sider leaving Italy forever. He made up his mind when Hitler's anti-Semitism flooded over the Alps. The Nobel Prize made escape easy. In 1938 Fermi took his Jewish wife and his two children to Stockholm to receive the prize. After the ceremony, they continued...
...buttoned up, prepared for the worst. Commuters hurried home to secure the family car and bring in the garbage pails. Radio and TV turned their full attention to the big wind. ("Hurricane Edna," announced one television commercial perfunctorily, "is being presented to you as a public service by Con Edison...
None of the indictments to date concerned the well-publicized windfall profits siphoned off from FHA-backed apartment mortgages. Most of them related to the Title I home-improvement program, which offered wide opportunities to veteran con men. The sharpers obtained loan money by inflating estimates of construction costs, supplying fictitious credit ratings, forging signatures on notes, faking project-completion certificates, etc. Some of the loans were diverted to making auto and alimony payments, and even to paying gambling debts...