Word: fooled
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...Matriarch McGinley trying to fool? She's more Friedan than Friedan...
These questions came before the Supreme Court in 1932, in Sorrells v. U.S. A man named Martin went to call on Sorrells, an old war buddy who was suspected of dealing in moonshine whisky. Martin wanted some booze. Sorrells said that he "did not fool with whisky." After repeated requests, Sorrells brought out the liquor-whereupon Old War Buddy Martin, who was also an old Prohibition agent, arrested him. Sorrells was convicted, and a circuit court affirmed the decision. In reversing the conviction, the Supreme Court said: "Congress could not have intended that its statutes were to be enforced...
...intransigence of Bertram A. Powers' printers' union has prevented any agreement on automation-a must for survival. It was Powers who brought the publishers together. During the strike, they got in the habit of seeing one another regularly and discussing their financial woes. "They can't fool each other any more," says one newspaper executive. "They know perfectly well who's making or losing what...
...Lincoln, whose likeness appeared below his famous admonition: "Se puede engahar a todo el pueblo parte del tiempo, se puede engahar a parte del pueblo todo el tiempo, pero no se puede engahar a todo el pueblo todo el tiempo." The lines-more familiar to Americans as "You may fool all of the people some of the time," etc.-were obviously meant to refer to the Yanquis. Cubans may just possibly apply them to someone else...
Parker's Back, a grotesque but mystically radiant story of salvation, describes what happens to a loose-living redneck who can't seem to get right with his God-fearing wife. The dang-fool frets till he can't drive straight, crashes his tractor into a tree, rises up inspired and rushes off to the tattoo parlor, where a life-size head of Christ is inscribed in the middle of his back...