Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friend was bothered by all this, as he had every right to be since the heat forced him to keep his windows open, but he had learned not to pay much attention to it. Instead he worried about Charies Darwin, who he had conciuded was the gratest fraud of the modern age. My friend had quit his job some time before to devote his time to refuling Darwin, which he saw as his mission in life, so now he sits in his apartment and reads books about evolution and writes letters to Harvard professors trying to convince them that...
...able to find markets for all the corn and grain from the huge harvests expected this year. Normally, 25% of all U.S. grain is exported to foreign buyers, who pay about $10 billion a year. Now that giant market is being threatened by a scandal involving: 1) bribery and fraud in federally licensed grain-inspection procedures, 2) suspected skimming of grain off export cargoes by the operators of grain elevators, and 3) laxity by the Department of Agriculture in fulfilling its obligation to ensure the quality of U.S. grain shipments...
...come into focus, namely, the visual reward [for so much effort] which must be there." The reward did not come. Ergo, it could never have been there, and anyone who thought it was -whether artist, critic, collector or onlooker-was either a patsy or a fraud...
...public has less hesitation about taking complaints to court. The past decade has brought a vast increase in lawsuits as minority groups, women and consumers have used the courts to win better schools, job opportunities and protection against fraud. It is only natural that patients who feel wronged by their doctors should also consider suing...
...reflex: shoot first and ask questions later. While Greenspun guns down local pols in his front-page column, "Where I Stand," his 25 reporters are out digging up screaming exposés in The Front Page tradition. Just before last fall's elections, the paper exposed as a fraud the mail-order gold-and-silver business of Gubernatorial Candidate James Ray Houston (he lost). Last week the Sun revealed how Greenspun and one of his reporters tracked down the lookout man in a gangland bombing and talked him into surrendering. "Yes, we're just about the most sued...