Word: deceitfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evening last March, FBI agents came to his house and arrested him. Last week he was free on bail, but his empire had collapsed, and he was under indictment on charges of fraud and theft. West Texas was swarming with investigators trying to untangle a web of deceit, fraud and corruption that stretched the 1,500 taut miles to Washington. One major discovery about Billie Sol was that the guesses about the size of his fortune had been fantastically inaccurate; far from being worth $150 million, or even $1 million, he was something like $12 million in the hole...
...concern over the existence of schools in Massachusetts which have been granted charters by the state but which have "met no standards of educational decency, and offer nothing more than a scrap of paper which they call 'degree.'" Doherty singled out Boston's Avon University as a "fraud and deceit," and maintained that the real intention of the bills was to alleviate the conditions caused by such institutions...
...hypothetical farewell of heartbreaking reasonableness. All at once her mood tears soundlessly, and she sobs: "I love you." At the horrifying unfairness of it all she screams: "You are monsters. or bootlickers to monsters." Her husband (George Voskovec) appears. He is a bootlicker, an intellectual full of soothing self deceit. With shameful secret relief, he hustles his wife off to the waiting train and the dark night of the soul...
...Soviet Union's resumption of nuclear testing has revealed, all too clearly, the following fact. A gangster (the Soviet Union) does not cease his bloody activities because society frowns upon his activities - the extension and preservation of Communism through deceit, treachery, and barbarity when necessary. Since society employs armed policemen to protect itself from gangsters, by the same token a nation should use minimal adequate force to protect itself from international gangsters...
...maimed man living in the care of his daughter. A disabling illness has put the father in a wheelchair-embittered, suspicious, and nursing a hatred for his schoolteacher wife, who contemptuously doles out his spending money. Daughter Antigone lives in a tight, self-woven net of deceit. She has retained the original name and relentless sense of justice of her counterpart in Sophocles' Antigone, but not her virtue, purity or innocence. She takes on a married man as a lover, but for both of them the fun of the game lies in deceiving their families. When the mother dies...