Word: suckered
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...sucker for a false...
...sucker for the most faded verbal orchid from the most cynical suitor. The worst book will get his best notices if he is favorably mentioned in it ... He feels compelled on all occasions to remind the world that he is a central figure in the history of the 20th century. 'One hundred years from now I'm the only newspaperman they'll remember,' he told a private audience ... He depicts himself as the eternal friend of the underdog ... his only requirement is that the underdog remain forever on his leash...
...been slipping into the lazy fallacy that all ideas, policies and political systems are approximately equal-a state of mind very different from the valid principle that all men have a right to express their ideas, however bad. Part of the U.S. public, overtolerant of bad ideas, was a sucker for McCarthy's bigoted effort to prove that bad policy must be the work of evil, traitorous...
High Pressure. The dealers operate from small offices along Toronto's Bay Street. They buy sucker lists in the U.S., or compile them from phone books, then send out come-on literature to as many as 500,000 people at a time. The original promotion pieces are usually comparatively conservative in their claims. When some one bites, the high-pressure selling is done over the telephone. ("This offer is being made to only a limited few and you must decide before tomorrow...
...named Harry Gross. The trail that led him to this courtroom fiasco went back ten years to a spot on Brooklyn's Church Avenue. Gross, then a rookie bookie, was furtively taking a bet off a customer when a plainclothes policeman came up. "You're a sucker for cheating this way," said the cop. Cheating, Gross found, meant breaking the law without paying off the cops. He stopped cheating, and by 1950 was the "Mr. G." of Brooklyn gambling, operating 35 places with 400 employees, handling $20 million a year, handing out $1 million a year to police...