Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Having produced its own bureaucracy, its own tariffs and a plan for its own currency, Europe's Common Market was bound to inspire its own kind of crime. That has now appeared in the form of a neat type of smuggling that Eurocrats call agro-fraud. The illegal activity costs the European Economic Community some $10,000,000 a year...
...Your story about Father Robert Duryea's attempted marriage fails to mention that clandestine marriage is prohibited for all Roman Catholics, not just vowed celibates. Many will find his ease at fraud more difficult to understand than his discomfort in celibacy...
...more passionate and poetic character. How did the Government get these letters? They were carried in and out of the prison by Boyd Douglas, 30, a prisoner serving time for passing bad checks, pointing a gun at an FBI agent, and violating his parole on a previous fraud conviction. Douglas was trusted enough by prison officials to be allowed to leave his cell daily to attend history and political science classes at Bucknell University, also in Lewisburg. Douglas charmed at least two coeds, told one he was dying of cancer and wanted to marry her to gain "six to twelve...
...publication has also launched an attack on Segal. In a pamphlet entitled "The Truth About Love Story" (an obscure reference to one of Segal's works), two students from San Diego, California, are attempting to demonstrate that the analysis of love presented in Segal's latest work is a fraud...
Ironically, her lack of skill in the art of deception is nearly the undoing of Mr. Horner, the most accomplished fraud in the play. He makes love to all the ladies in town, after winning their husbands' trust by the false report that he is a eunuch. Michael Tratner shows ingenuity as well as confidence in the role. When three of his mistresses visit him at once, he casually juggles three oranges, handling the fruit and the ladies with the same case. Speaking almost entirely in double entendres, he uses the same words to say different things to different characters...