Word: suckered
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...Turner for help with his less affluent client. Turner, who likes to hand out $100 bills to indigent passersby, was only too happy to comply. Turner, in a bright blue suit with a 2-in. by 4-in. American flag pin in his lapel, explained: "I'm a sucker for causes...
...conviction that such changes can be made; his early interests, in fact, were far from psychology. Born in Susquehanna, Pa., in 1904, he was the elder son of Grace Burrhus, an amateur musician who sang at weddings and funerals, and William Skinner, a lawyer who was "a sucker for book salesmen." In his "Sketch for an Autobiography," Skinner describes his early life as "warm and stable." He lived in the same house until he went to college. He was never physically punished by his father and only once by his mother?when she washed out his mouth with soap...
...problem is customers' attitude. "They've had a preconceived notion," complains a top official of a major manufacturer, "that all the panty-hose manufacturers are dishonest-that they might as well buy a cheap pair as a more expensive pair. The consumer has become a sucker for a low price." There is another snag. Many women, retailers say, buy a panty-hose size that accommodates their lithe self-image rather than one that approximates reality...
...book is one of those narrative toothpick trees that the '20s musicals utilized only to festoon with girls and dances. The central figure is a near-millionaire Bible publisher, whom Jack Gilford plays with gullible charm. Gilford is a kind of platonic sucker who has been gilding the palms of three avaricious flappers without any amorous return on his investment. He doesn't want his wife (Keeler) to find out about it, and he orders his lawyer (Bobby Van) to buy and bargain his way out of the mess. It all adds up to a kind of microminiature...
...opening yet another round in one of Asia's longest-running contests for power. The moonfaced, celibate Buddhist monk became the Union of Burma's first Premier when the country gained independence from Britain in 1948. He was gentle and compassionate, but he was also a sucker for a motley assortment of stargazers; one legendary day, presumably with appropriate astrological advice, he ordered 60,000 pagodas to be constructed-all of sand. The egregious corruption of his regime angered Burma's small middle class, and when he established Buddhism as the state religion, the non-Buddhist...