Word: suckered
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...results with a selective chemical designed to deal with the predatory eellike sea lamprey which has invaded the Great Lakes and almost exterminated the valuable lake trout (TIME, May 9). The lamprey, which bypassed Niagara Falls via the Welland Ship Canal, attaches itself to fish with a tooth-armed sucker and bores and sucks them to death. It has done so much damage to lake fisheries that the U.S. and Canada are spending large sums to cope with...
...established permanent floating crap game in New York" is about to sink. Its proprietor, one Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra), cannot raise the rent money for a suitably secluded backroom. Happens, however, he runs into Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando), a curly wolf at all games of chance, and lays the sucker a G he cannot make it to Havana, inside 24 hours, with a doll (Jean Simmons) named Sarah Brown, from the Save-A-Soul Mission...
...Hepburn to Venice tremulous with excitement, ready for adventure and eager for love. But this is only one Hepburn, and the buried one at that. On the surface is Hepburn's other, more dominant self: a woman grimly determined-above all else -not to be played for a sucker...
...place in his distinctly subordinate role, goateed Nikolai Bulganin looked like a professor of geology who has suddenly been swept up in a reception for Danny Kaye. Anastas Mikoyan, First Deputy Premier, who followed him from the plane, was dark and sour, an Armenian rug merchant unsure of his sucker. First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko, pale and drawn, stayed behind...
...learns that Bungo Pete has sunk the Walrus, skippered by his former executive officer. With a fury worthy of Melville's Captain Ahab, Richardson takes another submarine straight to Bungo Pete's lair. One stormy night he lures Pete out, torpedoes Pete's tincan and his sucker-bait freighter, and to make vengeance dead sure, rams and sinks all lifeboats. Even when the yarn runs right away with him, Author Beach keeps jamming in the authentic details, the tingling stress, the sweaty crush, of the submariners' war. This is he-man's, seaman...