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Word: dupee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PLAY IMPROVES a great deal by the time we hit Arkansas and Act Two Jerome Kilty as The King, and John Bottoms as The Duke are both hilarious and pathetic as they dupe revivalists and riff-raff alike...

Author: By Hanne-maria Maijala, | Title: Downstream | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

...door, Warren! (fatigued. I said). up the knocker, say I'm sick. I'm dead. I've got a People magazine so fat With reminiscent slush and self-congrat That I could barely lift it off the stoop. (Not from my door--I stole it off the some dupe) It seems this month the rag is ten years old; Too bad. I hoped that they were soon to fold. Their editer says their style is really new; They feature People, not people like...

Author: By Gregory M. Daniels, | Title: PEOPLE, Not People Like You | 3/3/1984 | See Source »

...relatives and friends, the abolition of privacy in the cramped sleeping quarters, and the constant threat of violence from both jailers and the jailed. This regimen did not break Dostoevsky; it inspired him to see himself and those around him in a strange new light. He had been the dupe of a foreign ideology, which had seduced him toward treason; the other convicts, beneath their horrid exteriors, manifested a beatific, instinctively Christian and compassionate Slavic soul. Writes Frank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crime and Punishment | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

Britain's papal nuncio says a peace priest may be a Soviet dupe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Nuclear Issue Gets Personal | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

...Duke, his skin scalded by flashbulbs, black ashtrays crowding the table like visas from a purgatorial kingdom of nightclubs: El Morocco, the Stork, the Lido. Those craterous eyes, staring off sidelong past the camera into the unforgiving background of history, which would soon reveal him as a dupe of fascism, an anti-Semite and a racist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Queen for a New Day | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

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