Word: sucker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pieced out his teacher's salary by painting houses and working at the post office on school vacations. Erma, he says, was always repainting or redecorating, moving the furniture around. There was, of course, a septic tank, and in the summer, says Erma, "you could see that little sucker sink into the ground and you'd think, 'There goes another $400.' " But there weren't many one-liners: "Who was there to listen...
...seized a board, a piece of two-by-four, it being the nearest thing at hand, and drew her plans on it-the kitchen, the dining room seating arrangement, all that. Fran recalls, "I thought, 'Boy, that's a hot idea,' and I threw that sucker in my suitcase and flew to Anchorage and went to the bank...
...more humble about his bigtime panhandling skills, which he has honed since being chosen as a co Class Agent for the Harvard College Fund in 1953, and which he now exercises as one of the Harvard Campaign's three national co-chairmen. "I guess I was just the sucker who got tapped," Stone says. "I'm the only one with a really strong business background, and that's why I'm interested in the money matters like the Campaign and the endowment...
...called because every cent of the $475 million budgeted to stage them has come from private sources, primarily U.S. corporations. But as every capitalist knows, the "invisible hand" of Adam Smith's marketplace economy not only provides bounteous rewards, it is also perfectly capable of delivering a sucker punch. It was far too early to tell whether the Soviets, in leading an East-bloc boycott of the Olympics, had landed a solid shot or a glancing blow on the 30 corporate sponsors, 54 Olympic licensees and hundreds of others who had sought prestige and profit through the Games...
...sitting, silent and motionless, for 22 minutes in his customers' kitchen. Another salesman flimflams his client with a hilarious spiel about life, existentialism and the pleasure principle; the monologue has all the narrative logic of Dadaist graffiti, but it whets the appetite, clinches the sale, sets the sucker up for the kill...