Word: doublecrossers
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...ever, Hoffa bounced out of a red Cadillac with his wife Jo, obviously enjoying the movie-premiere spectacle of TV lights and photographers. He disclaimed any rift with his "old friend Fitz," but when asked by a news reporter if the restriction on his release amounted to a doublecross, Hoffa said, "Nobody knows what happened, but it wasn't part of the papers I signed in prison...I probably would have been out in 1974 with the extra good time." His chief ambition right now, he said, was to "be able to speak out again about the injustices...
...board with 64 pieces to a side. Now, working independently, two other buffs have devised chesslike games for three players, all competing at the same time. Both encourage the formation of alliances in which two players can gang up on the third while at the same time scheming to doublecross each other. The shifting balance of power and Byzantine movement result in a chess contest that a Kissinger or Metternich would appreciate. The new games...
...American effort fails, the U.S. loses prestige. Yet the plan has a sort of perverse virtue in that it offers neither total victory nor total defeat to any of the principals involved. As Hudson Institute Futurologist Herman Kahn approvingly describes it, the policy amounts to "a limited doublecross of everyone...
...Cosa Nostra hoods have worries. In 1965, DeCavalcante forbade the killing of a Negro construction worker who assaulted a Marioso's son with a shovel during a fight. The Negro was a Black Muslim, and DeCavalcante feared a Muslim-Mafia war. Hoods also become disenchanted. Discussing one doublecross in 1964, DeCavalcante complained to an underling, Frank Mamri: "Sometimes, Frank, the more things you see, the more disillusioned you become. You know, honesty, honorability -all those things...
...motel handyman. Falls for his former boss's girl friend, who is trouble. A little bit psycho; likes to make it on tombstones. She leads him on and talks him into a big job: stealing $50,000 worth of the migrants' payroll. Then comes the doublecross...