Word: dupee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...because, as we see now, white people themselves are using violence against the various establishment. You don't run around and say that the poor white people are part of the establishment. Just the contrary. It's just that they are politically uneducated and the power structures consistently dupe them with demagoguery...
Common Humanity. In Act I, Behan is a boy of 16, an idealistic dupe of the Irish Republican Army just after the outbreak of World War II. He is captured in Liverpool even before he can open his suitcase full of explosives. In the local jail, he is brutally beaten by his captors and mocked and bullied by most of his fellow captives, who share a vindictively narrow loathing for the Irish and Catholicism, not to mention the I.R.A...
...secrets. It can only be said that its protagonist, a successful whodunit writer named Andrew Wyke (Anthony Quayle), is a witty snob who is inwardly delighted when a would-be lover makes a bid to divest him of his burdensome wife. Wyke sets out to ensnare his apparent dupe (Keith Baxter) in his own obsession with masks, disguises and charades, and, of course, is himself ensnared...
Uncertain Future. Last week, as Denny the Dupe played hide-and-seek with creditors who are trying to evict him from his suburban Detroit home for nonpayment of seven months' rent, his future in baseball was uncertain. With interests in a paint company, an air freight service and a television-store franchise, he claims a yearly income of $200,000; included is his $90,000 Tiger salary, the checks for which are being sent to a Detroit bank to pay off an outstanding loan...