Word: crook
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know this hero business--one of the things you learn as you grow older is that life gets very complicated, weird actually," the small-time crook with a selfless streak, Bernie LaPlante tells...
...hotel room or while he was still a candidate. Denying a "five-year affair" is different from claiming a lifetime of marital fidelity. An advanced gambit is angrily rebutting a charge that was never made. When Richard Nixon claimed in the midst of Watergate, "I am not a crook," he was telling a literal truth. He was charged with the abuse of power -- not larceny...
...pure heroes. "For a lot of people my age, their first political memory is Watergate," says Jonathan Cohn, a 22- year-old assistant editor at the American Prospect, a liberal quarterly. "That's not exactly a great foot to get started off on, where your President is a crook and the government is corrupt...
...years. He plans to counsel listeners on how to avoid the city's rampant street crime, and he may also throw in some practical tips to visitors on coddling a queasy stomach or dealing with recalcitrant taxi drivers. "Some people think it is in bad taste to allow a crook to do such a thing," said the former Great Train Robber, who hopes to meet soon with Rio police to discuss his radio debut on Eco Radio...
That's like protesting because of his hair color, way his teeth might crook, or the presence of some unknown birthmark. Like his sexual preference, none of these things make any difference in Gomes' ability...