Word: fooled
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...reason for the boycott, therefore, was that Chavez did not have the support of the farmworkers. The purpose, however, was to force workers into a union they didn't want to join. The strategy was to fool consumers into boycotting grapes and lettuce by misrepresenting the conditions of the farmworkers. The boycott would then force growers to sign with Chavez, and if the farmworkers wanted to work, they would have to join...
...bless the CIA. You can't fool with the golden rule in a crowd that don't play fair...
...assembled cowpokes were obviously impressed. They tried to cover their envy by pretending to fall down in uncontrolled fits of laughter - but of course their act did not fool me." Someone in charge at the rodeo decided that the TIME correspondent's performance merited what he interprets as a high honor: renamed for the event, one of the orneriest brahma bulls around stormed into the arena after being loudly announced as "John Austin...
...successful efforts to keep the world from exploding. There's little doube that Kissinger's role under Ford is going to change. He will continue to be a keystone in the public conduct of foreign affairs--Kissinger maintains wide respect and infuses a flamboyancy that Ford would be a fool not to exploit--but what remains to be seen is how different Kissinger's behind-the-scenes influence will be and how he will react...
...whose time has come." For countless American youth and those among the leftist intelligentsia who had labored for five years as the conscience of a nation, the triumph of an idea could not have seemed closer than when Lyndon B. Johnson told a stunned, nationwide television audience on April Fool's day, 1968, that he would neither seek nor accept nomination for another presidential term...