Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself was barely keeping alive. "If I paid my taxes, I would have gone broke," Poujade insists. "I had to pay out more than I made. It was the same thing for everybody in Saint-Céré and all over France. We could only keep going by fraud...
...What do I think about the whole Bridie business?" he wound up. "Well, it's no fraud, whatever it is ... Has this research disproved reincarnation? I'll leave that to you. All I think we've proved definitely is that memory (any kind of memory) is unreliable. And that we know less than nothing about our brains and our souls. I do think Morey and Ruth owe the world one more hypnotic session with somebody present who's accustomed to interviewing people. That somebody ought also to know Ireland. I volunteer...
...futile to drop snowballs down chimneys because they only "get stuck in the bend," whereas a bucketful of water meets with no such obstacle. There is Tutor Pinto Free man, who would have been a good educator had he not believed passionately that "all education is a fraud"; he is always uttering loud groans and hurrying "to the coat cupboard, where he kept a medicine bottle of whisky." And there is Mr. Mackee, a familiar figure in most people's childhood. "We despised him entirely and completely for . . . his kindness and good nature . . . Our great triumph [was] when...
...radio and 115 TV stations, and draws crowds wherever he pitches his revival tent. Since Australia usually welcomes visiting U.S. performers with open arms, his campaign down under should have gone well. But even before he landed in Sydney, a group of Australian preachers denounced him as a "fraud and impostor...
...State Capitol by Dr. Carl A. Weiss, on account of a family grudge. Needing a Long, however unpalatable, Huey's machine put Earl on the ticket for lieutenant governor. In 1939 Earl won promotion when Governor Leche resigned shortly before the discovery of a state mail-fraud scandal. There followed a raucous conflict be tween the Long forces and a group of reformers, out of which Earl Long emerged once more, in 1948, for the second time governor of Louisiana...