Word: suckered
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...half of the country said, 'You lost it.' The other half says, 'You're a goddamned sucker for having gone there.' And then there's the guy in the corner bragging about how he went to Canada...
...trusts others too little. It is more likely that he has trusted others too much (as he trusted John Lindsay, whom he supported for mayor, and who later turned his back). And it is possible that people have affection for Koch not because he is a wised-up sucker, but because they detect that he is a sucker still, quite unwised-up, just -like a great many New Yorkers who are no-nonsense on the outside and mush within...
...hurt. For years, at least some part of every Viet Nam veteran has inhabited a limbo of denial-the nation's or his own-often overcome by guilt and shame, and almost always by anger. Among other things, he has tended to think of himself as an awful sucker to have risked so much for so little. Most veterans (contrary to stereotype) have readjusted reasonably well to the civilian world. But many found that coming home was harder than fighting...
...designed for him by Hollywood Makeup Expert Mike Westmore. Says Uston: "I have been a British aristocrat and I have been a cowboy. I have false teeth, false noses and many wigs. With each disguise I use the appropriate accent. But the best ploy is to impersonate a sucker who is there to be milked...
...Billyball, it was still leaving opponents faked out of their flannels. On opening day, the A's choked off a Minnesota Twins rally with the ultimate schoolyard sucker-play-the old hidden-ball trick. Martin's merry men helped mount the season's first major brawl, a bench-emptier with Seattle during Oakland's record-setting eleventh win. There is even a shortstop, Mack "Shooty" Babitt, who sprints to first base when he draws a walk and, occasionally, slides...