Word: suckering
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...response to complaints that poachers were illegally shooting deer from their cars, Virginia game officials purchased a stuffed buck, named him Sucker and placed him near a roadside. The four-day sting operation led to eleven convictions on 23 separate charges. Sucker has proved such an attractive target that he has been taken to a taxidermist to have his bullet holes restuffed. Said Game Warden Jim Bankston: "That's one thing we learned about illegal hunters. Most of them are pretty good shots...
...those incapacitated couples so devoted they will invest in any Valentine's Day gimmick. Sell Valentine's Day Dinners at the Union. Couples could choose from sedate Seafood Salad Sweetheart plates or the more daring Luscious Lasagne Lover meals. Don't forged to stick a cherry-flavored Valentine " sucker" on top of each dish...
...never seen such a big sucker," the cabbie bubbled to my friend and me as we slipped into the back seat. "Twenty-five or 30 pounds. I rolled my window right up when that sucker started to back...
...1950s, these Coney Islands of the Mind were crumbling along with the cities they served. Then Disney, who had already revolutionized the movie business with his Mickey Mouse short films and feature-length cartoons, conceived a new show-biz hybrid called the theme park. No rickety roller coasters, no sucker- fleecing games of chance, no sideshow tawdriness for Uncle Walt. At his place every path would be as spotless as Formica; every doorway would be scaled to just above kid-size; every "attraction" (not ride) would be sweet enough for "guests" (not customers) of all ages to enjoy, a little...
...tubes and their methods are aimed at producing a panoply of weapons "that would be effective in eradicating or at least controlling this virus in patients," Hirsch says. Groopman, an assistant professor of medicine, concurs, saying he has never worked so hard in his life to catch the "clever sucker...