Word: crooking
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...state. Duke skillfully manipulated the politics of discontent, playing on resentment of quotas, welfare and Big Government. He railed against Edwards' liberalism and his penchant for gambling and womanizing and trading government jobs for campaign contributions. But in the end, the bumper sticker won the day: VOTE FOR THE CROOK: IT'S IMPORTANT. Concluding that electing a bigot would be too costly to a state in dire economic straits, voters gave Edwards 60% of the vote. The turnout was an astonishing...
...where do we go for it? Everybody agrees with what he's saying. Why should you come to work when you can pick up a welfare check? That's why I'm going to vote for him." Her fellow office worker, Georgie Haggerty, will vote for Edwards. "He's crooked," she says, "but he's an honest crook." "We don't ask for free things because we're white or Catholic or have blue eyes," contends Robert Fruge, 29, of Metairie, the predominantly white New Orleans suburb that is Duke's stronghold. "Why should anyone else ask for them...
...rich literary tradition. Her immediate American predecessors were not a wholesome precedent: John Berryman (alcoholic, suicide), Robert Lowell (episodically psychotic), Delmore Schwartz (alcoholic), Theodore Roethke (manic-depressive), Elizabeth Bishop (alcoholic). Sexton had shrewd instincts. "With used furniture he makes a tree," she wrote. "A writer is essentially a crook." Maybe...
...most political crook in Boston, Whitey Bulger--brother of the most crooked politician in Boston, Billy Bulger--actually won the state lottery...
...most political crook in Boston, Whitey Bulger--brother of the most crooked politician in Boston, Billy Bulger--actually won the state lottery...