Word: suckered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...command lecture fees of several hundred dollars. But for the rank and file of the movement, survival in the society they are working to destroy -and the financing of the machinery to effect that destruction-depends upon a curious combination of primitive-tribal Communism, good Samaritanism, soak-the-sucker capitalism, live-on-the-dole socialism and the riding spirit of Robin Hoodism...
...necesary, of course, to have a jam after the game to insure against taking crap that night. It's quite logical, actually. This dude from Tech feels like he's God, just because his hockey team really put it to you. So you sucker him, let him have a good shot to the mouth when he least expects it, and somehow, it's all even again. That is, of course, unless he and his buddies want to START something to save Tech's honor. Then you'll really have...
...face-off. You know he hears that voice. Christ, everybody hears it. But Jimmy just pretends that nothing at all is happening. Maybe he knows that this sort of thing gets yelled at him all the time, or that the guy probably hasn't got the sack to actually sucker him outside after the game...
...know that it won't be a Tech-Southie game until someone jams, and it's only a matter of time until some Southie dude, drunk out of his mind or all beaned up, comes over to sucker someone from Tech. The Tech guys, led by The Pork, are all singing the Tech song, and it sounds really loud and they're just asking for a brawl. Well, eventually some Southie guy does come over. He's been drinking, and he left his coat with his buddies or someone while he strolled over to take care of a little unfinished...
...decided he had perhaps been a sucker. "Now look here, young man. I can take a joke as well as the next man: in fact, I always see the other man's side, but this pointless fool ishness..." He tried to rise from his seat on the couch, but he had sunk far down into the plush and his feebleness slowed...