Word: crooked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There were a couple of Tiger opportunities in the extra session, but White rose to the occasion, getting her leg pads, glove, or even the crook of her arm on some shots...
...disrobe themselves of their foreign policy advisers. They begin to compromise and agree on matters they have very little experience or knowledge of, much like an unwary tourist in an Arab bazaar. This is particularly ominous for the United States, where the last four presidents have been a crook, a football player, a peanut farmer, and an actor. Thanks to television's role in American electoral politics, we can't expect our presidents to be experts on foreign affairs--but they're guaranteed to be both good-looking and charismatic...
...stuck instead with a farce out of Balzac. Benn's wife and in-laws have plans for him. Matilda can hardly be supported as is her wont on her husband's salary of $60,000. But Benn has assets he has absentmindedly forgotten: an uncle of his, a notable crook in the disintegrating local Democratic machine, once bilked him and Kenneth's mother out of huge proceeds from the sale of family property. Dr. Layamon tells Benn man to man: "Well, as you will have figured, with a brain like yours, the object is to recover money from Uncle Harold...
...like your job?"), to French dignitaries gathered for the & funeral of Charles de Gaulle ("It's a great day for Paris"). Buchwald noted that the presidency always provides good material. "Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women in my heart.' President Reagan says, 'I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope...
...since 1976 on a murder conviction. Though cleared of that charge in 1983, he was being held for possible extradition to Thailand to face a death sentence for allegedly drugging, robbing and killing several Western tourists. By week's end Indian police had uncovered no trace of the wily crook...