Word: dupee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...THINKS THE DON IS DEAD, YOU CAN TAKE A LITTLE TRIP WITH HIM TO HIS SWISS BANK VAULT AND SHARE THE ILL-GOT GAINS HE HAS SEQUESTERED THERE. THE SWINDLERS MASTERMINDING THIS GAME ARE A PAIR OF JUSTICE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS WORKING ON THE WITNESS SECURITY PROGRAM. THE MAGICMAKER THEY DUPE INTO HELPING THEM IS WELL PLAYED BY BRYAN BROWN, WHO HAS BEEN HANDSOMELY SUPPLIED WITH...
...gone cold. In a ranting fury he rings for a servant and, almost as an afterthought, gulls the hapless lackey into believing himself responsible for the killing. Then, confident of his escape and frugal to the last, Lord Are points to the remains of the meal and tells his dupe, with a dismissive flourish, "Throw the toast to the hens on your way to prison...
...infer. The Administration's spy-hunting hype has passed the bounds of mediocre entertainment to the point where it now threatens the most fundamental freedoms of our more or less open society. With all its shadowy accusations and logical pratfalls, the Administration must not be allowed to dupe the public into fearing Commies when it should fear abridgements of the rights of speech and knowledge. We wish Harvard every success in its ongoing fight against the Pentagon's new McCarthyism and support its right to publish whatever scientific and social truths it finds and to bring here whichever scholars...
When the story of Winans' improprieties broke in March, co-workers suggested that he might have been the dupe of sophisticated traders and investment analysts whom he interviewed for his column. But in May the SEC charged in a civil suit that two stockbrokers who shared in the scheme, David Brant and Kenneth Felis, both then employed by Kidder Peabody, paid Winans $31,000 disguised as interior-decoration fees to his New York City roommate, David Carpenter. Last week's indictment charges that in the first half of 1983, before any arrangement with the brokers, Winans and Carpenter...
Hart also supports the freeze, but, unlike Mondale, he does not wallow in its symbolism, or pretend that a freeze can be easily negotiated. Despite increasingly hysterical charges by Mondale that Hart is the dupe of Reagan's legislative ploy to pass the MX missile proposal. Hart voted against the Reagan MX missile build-down program on October...