Word: dupe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...point out that he's too old to do a good job. The two, also, call each other some names: Hynes accuses McDonough of being a young Curley while McDonough thinks that Hynes is actually backed by Curley to defeat McDonough. Curley calls Hynes a fusion candidate, a political dupe of the Republicans on Beacon Hill...
...eight, she was the most photographed human being on earth. At nine, while other little girls waited for their permanent teeth to come in, she wore costly false teeth to hide the gaps from the camera. When she was ten, a Dies Committee witness denounced her as a Communist dupe. At 13, she was a has-been (with $3,000,000 in the bank). At 16, making a comeback, Shirley got her first screen kiss. At 17, when she was barely out of high school, she got married, and at 19 she gave birth to a daughter...
...Albanians blandly denied any responsibility. Their defense counsel, French fellow-traveler Pierre Cot, declared that Kovacic was the "dupe of two beautiful women, spies of a foreign power." Cracked one court stenographer: "How can the International Court keep its dignity when a trial gets so interesting...
There is nothing in Wallace's past record to indicate that he has so low a mentality that he can be duped by . . . the Commies. He is well educated. He has been more than successful in a competitive business world. It is absolutely impossible to dupe such a well-informed and intelligent man on such a broad scale...
...yarn it spins out, in a thin, reedy voice, is the one about the lamb fallen among wolves: innocent, upright French Schoolmaster Topaze (nicely played by Oscar Karlweis) is used as a dupe by a high-class swindler and his very French mistress. But after a while Topaze begins to get the hang of things. Inevitably, he also gets the very French lady...