Word: cons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this program, FHA guaranteed more than 16,500,000 loans to homeowners for repairs. With inadequate funds, and without permission from Congress to inspect each loan, the FHA had been forced to rely on the prudence of banks to uphold ethical standards. In many instances, the reliance was misplaced. Con men and crooked contractors have made millions from overevaluated loans for slapdash or nonexistent repairs...
Then he said, "I'm lonesome." Describing what happened later, Mrs. Krone said: "He put his left arm around my shoulder and with his right hand he started pulling up my skirt." Was there any more con versation? "No sir," she told the Bakersfield coroner, "It was all action." As her muscular assailant reached for her, Mrs. Krone stepped on the throttle, brought her left forearm down on the steering wheel horn ring, and pushed at him with her right hand. He grabbed the wheel and ran the car off the road. She opened the door, jumped...
...bums, priests, con men, whining housewives, burglars, waitresses, children and bewildered ordinary citizens who people Dragnet seem as sorrowfully genuine as old pistols in a hockshop window. By using them to dramatize real cases from the Los Angeles police files-and by viewing them with a compassion totally absent in most fictional tales of private eyes-Webb has been able to utilize many a difficult theme (dope addiction, sex perversion) with scarcely a murmur of protest from his huge public...
...last week Roy Fruehauf was con fident that with Beck's help he had 55% of the 1,459,614 outstanding shares of stock on his side, felt assured of victory at the stockholders' meeting...
...random digs at classics clubs ("I, connoisseur of good reading, friend of con noisseurs of good reading everywhere"), sloppy diction ("what one weather prophet on the radio calls 'inner mitten' showers"), "personalized" writing ("As for us, we would as lief Simoniz our grandmother as personalize our writing"), usually blend good fun with good sense. Full of engaging tidbits, the "dog's breakfast" does not offer much to chew, but more than enough to tickle the taste buds...