Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dissatisfactions. Trumpeted Republican National Chairman Guy Gabrielson: "The attempt ... to insinuate that Republican victory mea°ns a revival of isolationism is an unworthy fraud and deceit." Alexander Wiley announced that the results meant only a "closer supervision" of foreign aid funds. "There need not be fear that Congress will slash foreign aid with a meat ax," he said...
Enraged in advance, and feeling that he was already the dupe of a wily fraud, he took steps to improve his station. But just what steps he took are a matter of conjecture. Capp, a man with such an instinct for the dramatic that he sometimes lapses into purest fiction, swears that he got the copyright from the syndicate by a one-man strike: he quit drawing the strip for two weeks and thus reduced the syndicate to abject submission...
...trying to take over the Democratic Party . . . Do you want people outside the state telling you how to vote? The Administration wants a rubber-stamp Congress. If it gets one, we will have nationalization of medicine and every other welfare service ... I say the Brannan Plan is a fraud. They promise high prices for the farmer and low prices for the consumer, but they don't tell what would happen in between. It would cost the taxpayer about $5 billion a year. And who are the taxpayers? They are the same farmers and consumers...
...statue is itself a fraud. Daniel Chester French who sculptured it in 1885 had not the slightest idea what John Harvard looked like and used a good looking undergraduate of the time as his model...
...East Berliners gathered across the Potsdamer-Platz to read unadulterated news. Enraged Communists turned fire hoses on the sign, then tried vainly to blot it out with strong searchlights. East Berliners went right on looking at the news. Sample bulletin: "Chancellor Konrad Adenauer labels Soviet-zone elections a fraud...