Word: crooked
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...victims discovered they had been robbed when they stumbled on the crook's path...
Tales of these twisted relationships run from the tasteless to the tragic--from Brooke Shields' mother, who pushed her daughter around Hollywood like an ice-cream wagon, to Steffi Graf's crook of a father, who broke her heart. Tennis offers an especially good stage for watching these parents in action. There they sit in the best courtside seats, often functioning as "coaches," glaring stone-faced in fury or some other psychotic mood at their investment offspring, who are incidentally their children...
...little regard for ethics or even the law, plunged into the worlds of banking and moviemaking. He cashed in before the market crash of 1929. When Franklin Roosevelt called Joe to Washington to clean up the Securities and Exchange Commission, somebody asked F.D.R. why he had tapped such a crook. "Takes one to catch one," replied Roosevelt. Kennedy did a superb...
...line memory book the library compiled to mark its anniversary, William G. Crook Jr. '51 writes of "those crisp, clear mornings at 6 a.m. when a bricklayer would over-turn his four foot by two foot metal trough right under my bedroom window, and proceed to spend the next 30 minutes methodically beating every square inch of it with a shovel wielded over his head...
...students who haven't any thing to gain from slander. Anyone who believes Clem, no doubt a bastion of moral probity when it comes to hoops, also believed that Clinton did not have sexual relations with that woman, that Reagan did not recall and that Nixon was not a crook...