Word: dupe
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Enraged in advance, and feeling that he was already the dupe of a wily fraud, he took steps to improve his station. But just what steps he took are a matter of conjecture. Capp, a man with such an instinct for the dramatic that he sometimes lapses into purest fiction, swears that he got the copyright from the syndicate by a one-man strike: he quit drawing the strip for two weeks and thus reduced the syndicate to abject submission...
...McCarthy was not on the Senate floor when Chavez spoke, but, never at a loss for words, he soon answered: "Poor Dennis Chavez" was a "dupe" in an Administration plot. An angrier retort came from the Very Rev. Laurence J. McGinley, S.J., president of Fordham University, where Budenz teaches economics. Senator Chavez, said Father McGinley, had been guilty of slander, hypocrisy, cowardliness and "personal vilification . . . even lower than that reached in the columns of the Daily Worker." Budenz had Fordham's "full confidence . . . The Senator had the effrontery, moreover, to pose as a Catholic while publicly enacting this vicious...
...Communist who would swear that Lattimore had been under party discipline. "I do not know the name of this alleged witness," said Lattimore. But leaning forward earnestly, he made a sweeping denial that he was or ever had been a Communist, a Communist fellow traveler or a Communist dupe...
...Schlitz on his head and drinking from a hot-water bag, even the most non-Roman audience cannot help laughing. John Rexine, the pimp, brandishes his curses and his whip as if he had done nothing else all his life, and Paul Broneer and Joe Dallett, as the dupe and his swaggering impersonator, are well-cast. The love scene between Arthur Millward and Brooks Emmons is a spicy reminder that the Romans weren't always dead...
...Chambers, an ex-Communist courier. She named Government officials who, she said, had passed secret documents to her. Then the committee subpoenaed Chambers. He generally corroborated Miss Bentley's story, testified that Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Harry Dexter White, whom she named, was at the least a dupe of the C.P., and repeated not all but a number of the names he had given Berle. He said that espionage was not the primary purpose of the group, but "espionage was certainly one of its eventual objectives." He testified that Priscilla Hiss was also a member of the party...