Word: crookes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marcos has already made sure they will not be counted. What emerges from the fraud, the violence and the chaos of contradictory "quick counts" on election results is that Marcos is no longer the favored leader of the Philippines and maneuvering to stay in power by hook or by crook. In light of the civil unrest and the near-standstill in vote counting, the situation is on the verge of disaster, not of getting better...
...thing that only an individual can truly know, and simultaneously the one virtue that cannot be expressed simply, unlike so many cardboard cinema emotions. What really could be more phony than Richard Nixon's claim, straining for the sincerity he would never achieve, that "I am not a crook"? He who doth protest ... dispenses with any chance of conveying more than the ersatz...
...then muses as he skids away from the befuddled beast, "Fell for the oldest trick in the book." Staring down the wrong end of a revolver aimed at him by the mastermind of a drug-smuggling and -peddling scheme, the reporter eyes the plaques on the wall behind the crook and sighs, "You know, if you shoot me you'll lose a lot of those humanitarian awards...
...Mexican drug kingpins, Miguel Felix Gallardo and Rafael Caro Quintero. But the U.S. believes that Mexico's gangland "families" have been operating with wide- scale police protection. Officers who were supposedly tracking Caro Quintero in connection with the Camarena case claimed they simply failed to recognize the well-known crook when he boarded a private plane in Guadalajara two days after the agent's abduction. Caro Quintero flew to Caborca, a remote desert town where he may now be in hiding...
...kind of sworn to myself ever since I fell off the roof that I'd get there by hook or by crook," he added...