Word: huckstered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Steve left a year later, it was the end of his formal education. He shipped out on an oil tanker, worked in lumber camps, did a tour in the Marine Corps, worked as a sandalmaker, a delivery boy and as a carny huckster. "We were selling these ballpoint pens," he says, "and man, they were worth like 160 apiece. And we were sellin' them for a buck. It was a full scam...
False Sentimentality. To use a phrase from current teenage slang, Algren has gone ape, real ape. The pity of all this is that the wheedling, folksy tone of the huckster ("I've learned a few tricks of the trade myself, such as adding an 's' when you want to show there is more than one of something") comes from the mouth of a man who once had a real gold watch to sell and not a brass turnip...
...U.P.I. editors, Goldwater made a slashing, campaign-style attack on President Kennedy's "response to blackmail demands" in the Cuban tractor deal. Goldwater denounced U.S. Information Agency Director Edward R. Murrow (who has defended the deal) as a "Government-paid huckster," declared that "if official policy is so shaky that the USIA has to be utilized to sell it to our own people, then that policy should be abandoned in favor of one that the American people can support." Labeling John Kennedy's cold war policy as "almost calculated confusion," Goldwater called for the President to lay down...
...indulge themselves, and they have been conditioned by the dramatic progress of medicine in the past few decades to believe that almost any pill, capsule or tonic is a miracle drug. People are disease conscious, and their fears about disease set them up for exploitation by the pseudo-scientific huckster...
CHARLIE BROWER does not fit the popular image of the Madison Avenue huckster. He is low key instead of high pressure, prefers brown worsteds to grey flannels, Rob Roys to Gibsons, New Jersey to Connecticut's Fairfield County, still lives in the Westfield, NJ. home that he has owned for 20 years, keeps a Manhattan apartment for himself and his wife...