Word: hoodwink
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...since that patter-perfect trombone salesman, Professor Harold Hill, arrived in River City to organize a boys' band has Iowa seen a confidence game this audacious. But where The Music Man set out to hoodwink the locals, this time the tables are turned: Iowa has pulled off a sting on the rest of the nation. Who could have imagined that Iowa of all places could create a $20 million winter tourist industry? This is, after all, a state where the weather is so fierce that Des Moines had to construct a latticework of skywalks to shield shoppers from the wind...
...take a stand on divestment. By leaving the question blank one does not avoid taking a stand on whether the Undergraduate Council should address political issues. Question two may be subject to a variety of interpretations, but it can not be glibly avoided. The majority position would, indeed, "hoodwink" students into making a disastrous decision about the Council's role in the debate over divestment...
...back, in the shtetls of Eastern Europe; it took a ragman to become a Hollywood rajah. "They had grown up," wrote Film Historian Carlos Clarens, "in a trade where samples could be smelled, fingered and felt; they recognized craft when they saw it, and they respected it; rather than hoodwink the customer, they aimed to please." The moguls did not see themselves as artists, or the movies as art. Their job was to keep the assembly line rolling, in a factory called Hollywood...
...Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, says: "He is tone deaf, it seems to me. He has no sense of the music of verse." Al though Rowse usually retains the rhythm of Shakespeare's lines, some of his substitutions change it altogether. "We'll have no Cupid hoodwink'd with a scarf," says Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet; in Rowse's version he says "blindfolded," which adds an awkward syllable...
...prawn, to come the, v.: to delude or hoodwink a drongo or galah...