Word: dupee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unless Richard Cresson Harlow can dupe the Bulldog for four quarter instead of last year's one, it looks like Yale will take the title. For the Quakers, again forsaking their cloistered neighbors for redder meat, would have only four successful appearances to match Eli's six (with Brown, Princeton, and Harvard being serviced the next three weeks...
...intelligence sergeant, he was the chief military writer and editor for Operation Annie, a psychological warfare project of the Twelfth Army Group during the war's last five months. Annie's objective: to win the enemy's confidence by giving him aid & comfort, the better to dupe him later...
Americans had some right to feel puzzled. Britain was asking for a huge U.S. loan, complaining that she could not pay normal interest (see INTERNATIONAL). Yet Britain could afford to lower her taxes. But the British were not trying to dupe the U.S. A cut in taxes was a matter of pounds, and Britain's world needs were reckoned in dollars. She needed foreign exchange for imports, foreign capital for reconversion and exports, and only U.S. dollars could fill the want. Nothing Hugh Dalton did to British taxes could provide the dollars...
Chief source is a Nazi ex-officer (George Coulouris) who, pretending to the occupying troops that he is an antiFascist, shelters with an unwilling bourgeois housewife (Helen Beverly). He also toys viciously, in his spare time, with her nubile daughter (Starlet Nancy Gates). His most useful dupe is an emotional miller (Paul Guilfoyle) who, easily led to believe that the Allies are eager to hoodwink and exploit his fellow townsmen, stirs up labor trouble and blows up a military jail. His most dangerous enemy is a repentant Nazi prisoner (Eric Feldary), whose murder he brings about and who, with...
Representative Hamilton Fish's attempt to stem the Administration's interventionist flood with his stubborn dam of isolation was swept away in formal debate by the onslaught of William Y. Elliott, noted Gov. 1 professor, who charged that Fish was a "tool or dupe" of the Nazis...