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...American right thereupon proclaimed that at last they had proof that Acheson was the Communist dupe they had said he was. Under attack as never before, Acheson offered to resign, but Truman, who vastly admired him, pluckily backed him up. "I suppose an element of pride entered into this," Acheson later explained. "I knew this question was going to be asked. And I knew the press was going to believe I'd run. And I just said, 'I'm not going to run. I'm going to let you have it right...
...advertised this stuff in good faith," Rosen said, "and weren't trying to dupe anybody or build ourselves up bigger than we were...
...next day Clay announced that he had been converted to the Black Muslim faith and would henceforth be known as Muhammad Ali. Many whites immediately dismissed him as a dupe of black racists. The boxing establishment backed off. In 1966, the draft-exempt classification he had been given three years previously for flunking a mental exam ("I never said I was the smartest; I said I was the greatest") was suddenly switched to 1-A. Rather too quickly for the law, Ali was made a Muslim "minister" in order to claim a clerical exemption. He also infuriated thousands of Americans...
...roots I'd now be a laborer in a paper or textile mill, married and the father of two children, a veteran of action in Vietnam, and a reasonably brainwashed communicant in a Roman Catholic, predominantly Irish parish. Instead, I am a lazy good-for-nothing, probably a Communist dupe, and live on a communal farm, way into the backwoods of Vermont. What went wrong...
...rewarded teachers not for their seniority or degrees, but for their ability to teach, as measured by the progress of their classes. The best teachers would have been paid as much as principals. But the plan provoked the local teachers' union into accusing the board of trying to "dupe" the community by a "criminal action." Faced with the threat of court action, the board now seems almost certain to keep the focus on reading, but to back down on the plan's pay standards...