Word: cons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...population has jumped from 150,000 to 250,000 in four years. Villahermosa has sprouted three first-class hotels, all booked solid. Highly paid oil workers have kicked up the prices of everything from housing to tortillas. Reeking of oil and money, the town is attracting the usual motley con men and drifters, losers and locos. The trucks barreling between the town and the fields rarely stop when they hit a pedestrian. About one pedestrian is killed each night, often a bewildered campesino still unable to grasp the rapid changes. Whores flash their gold-toothed smiles while cruising the wide...
...they have to look good--they're out there in the open. Sex is one of those driving forces that must be taken into account." The argument is as old as the hills, if not older. Women have always tried to use their sex as a driving force to con men into paying some sort of attention to them. It would indeed be a peculiar phenomenon if women were now to be competing solely with other women "out there on the streets...
With the confidence of an experienced con artist, Time presents these articles of faith as facts and buttresses them with an impressive array of statistics and testimonials. Practiced in the arts of obfuscation and misrepresentation, Time has created a masterpiece of disguise...
...however, Tower did cast a good vote for bilingual education, and he has been making political mileage out of it ever since. Mexican-American radio stations have been inundated with ads touting the vote. There are billboards plastered all over the Spanish-speaking parts of town that say "Tower, Con Nosotros." Tower, he's with...
...African has been lead to believe that he must wait for the Christian con-science of his oppressor to be pricked before he can be intitled to more than just the crumbs of the cake," Sibeka said. "This struggle must become part and parcel of the people," he added...