Word: suckering
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...more humble about his bigtime panhandling skills, which he has honed since being chosen as a co Class Agent for the Harvard College Fund in 1953, and which he now exercises as one of the Harvard Campaign's three national co-chairmen. "I guess I was just the sucker who got tapped," Stone says. "I'm the only one with a really strong business background, and that's why I'm interested in the money matters like the Campaign and the endowment...
...called because every cent of the $475 million budgeted to stage them has come from private sources, primarily U.S. corporations. But as every capitalist knows, the "invisible hand" of Adam Smith's marketplace economy not only provides bounteous rewards, it is also perfectly capable of delivering a sucker punch. It was far too early to tell whether the Soviets, in leading an East-bloc boycott of the Olympics, had landed a solid shot or a glancing blow on the 30 corporate sponsors, 54 Olympic licensees and hundreds of others who had sought prestige and profit through the Games...
...sitting, silent and motionless, for 22 minutes in his customers' kitchen. Another salesman flimflams his client with a hilarious spiel about life, existentialism and the pleasure principle; the monologue has all the narrative logic of Dadaist graffiti, but it whets the appetite, clinches the sale, sets the sucker up for the kill...
...concept behind seatbelts also bugs me. You're falling to earth from 30,000 feet and you expect a seatbelt to save your life? The only good thing that they do is make it easier for the rescue people to find your body. "Yup, there he is, 27A, sucker had his seatbelt on." If it's going to be your last chance to piss someone off, you might as well spread your body all over the place...
...Pentagon had been paying $91 for screws that cost 3? "in any hardware store." He charged that the Federal Government has failed to collect some $100 billion each year in taxes that are owed it. "If you're still paying taxes," he said to his audience, "hi, sucker...