Word: cozen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first sovereigns to visit the Russian capital since 1928 (when the Shah of Afghanistan dropped by) were put up in an apartment within the walls of the Kremlin itself. New bathrooms were installed, to make the place fit for a king. The purpose of all this red-carpeting: to cozen Iran away from its allies in the Baghdad Pact...
Earning the Title. After Appomattox, all should have been an anticlimax. But Dan Sickles went on to be Minister to Spain by appointment of President Grant. In Madrid he tried to cozen the Spanish out of Cuba without a war and earned the derisive title, "Yankee King of Spain'' by his trips to Paris to make love to the deposed Spanish Queen Isabella...