Word: duped
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...friends and relations spin the web of his life out of their memories. It has been the kind of life that gets lived a great deal oftener than it gets written about-the life of a good and gentle man from whom others take, not because he is a dupe, but because it is his nature to give...
...picture is a take off, on European intrigue at the close of the last century. The plot, hingeing on the daring double dupe, is complicated but clear. There is a fantastic fencing fiesta at the end, staged by Mason and Granger, both fencers of the old school. The gallant does not get the girl, an excellent theory of the new school. Greed and honor, love and duty, chivalry and chauvanism clash on the field of melodrama. Good wins, as it should, but then, bad doesn't loose. The villain escapes, as he should and there are several beautiful women whose...
McCarthy summed up his case: "Since your foundation owned all the stock in United and you helped sign the death warrant of American boys in Korea, you were either the greatest dupe or the greatest dope of all time...
...last week, a special House committee resumed the investigation it began last fall into the wartime massacre of more than 4,000 Polish officers in Katyn Forest near Smolensk, Russia (TIME, Nov. 26). The issue: Was Katyn just another Nazi atrocity, or did the Russians do it and then dupe the Western world into blaming the common enemy...
...final gasp of opposition, the railway and seaport lobbies are hinting that Canada really cannot afford to build the Seaway by itself at all, and that its announcement is intended to dupe Congress into co-sponsoring the project...