Word: crookes
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...ancient practice of selling filched goods by introducing the reader to a true-life fence whom he has playfully named Vincent Swaggi. Klockars analyzes Swaggi's business methods, personnel problems and regular customers, and, best of all, allows his subject, who is an intelligent, fast-talking crook, to speak for himself...
...addition, Watergate tied a square knot in the purse strings of big G.O.P. donors. The Ohio party is nearly broke, and contributions to the Illinois party are off by 90%. Says Michigan's G.O.P. Chairman William McLaughlin: "A lot of people believe that you're a crook if you give and a crook if you take...
...third period, after Ford's assumption of the presidency, most commentators apparently decided--undoubtedly correctly--that it was better to be honest but dumb than to be smart and a crook. "Gerald Ford is Middle America," Time magazine said firmly. As long as Ford continued to cook his own breakfast and refused to follow his predecessor in fattening himself at the public expense, commentaries indicated, all would be right with the republic. Like Lytton Strachey's eminent Victorian, they were obsessed with the ideal of saintliness and convinced of the supreme importance of not eating too much...
Moses got things done by hook or by crook. He blackmailed politicians into supporting his proposals by threatening to reveal dirt his "bloodhounds" had dug up--his dossiers were the terror of state politics. Triborough's vast patronage in the fields of construction, engineering, banking and insurance were doled on the basis of loyal support. Moses's opponents were ruthlessly blacklisted. His own brother--whose existence he never publicly acknowledged--was refused work as the qualified engineer he was because Moses had conceived a grudge against him. As the guardian of his brother's trust funds, Moses...
...bread and behind my back says, 'a sonofabitch.'" To complete the group there is the gentle failure of a father who lives in the past, and the small-time gangster with a heart of gold who can't express his more tender feelings and who is no more a crook than any capitalist...