Word: flimflammed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Oils [her specialty], Flower Remedies, Colour Counselling-- you name it.'' Personal growth, she assures the baffled George, ``needs assistance. It needs sharing. Anything you want to share?'' What Katy wants is a big share of George's money, to stake her to a London outlet for her West Coast flimflam. For all his rapture in her, George proves to be a resistant victim. Unlike Katy's, his spirit is dull and earthbound. He remembers his own humble roots before he prospered in a packaging business, before his best friend--a carefree chap whose background was similar to his--died...
What Katy wants is a big share of George's money, to stake her to a London outlet for her West Coast flimflam. For all his rapture in her, George proves to be a resistant victim. Unlike Katy's, his spirit is dull and earthbound. He remembers his own humble roots before he prospered in a packaging business, before his best friend-a carefree chap whose background was similar to his-died of cancer. As the fool in George plots marriage, the essential George-bland-walks all over London, even stopping by his dead friend's apartment in an effort...
...which technically numbers 2,238, is actually far shorter. The Pentagon is satisfied that only 73 unresolved cases remain in which the missing combatants could conceivably have been captured alive. Some families, and supporting % groups of veterans, hotly dispute such a short list, calling Clinton a victim of bureaucratic flimflam...
...just because of the personal nature of his needling either -- although that is getting extreme. Sample insults from his latest round of TV interviews: Clinton is "still doing things the Arkansas way, like trying to give the travel business as a political payoff . . . the President ((is)) . . . trying to flimflam the American people." All this in addition to % Perot's now celebrated crack that he would not hire Clinton for any job above middle management...
...direction. And if some of them stick, it won't simply be because they call into question Bush's character. It will be because four years in the White House have transformed Bush's carefully managed image as a square- shouldered Dudley Do-Right into something closer to the Flimflam...