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Word: suckers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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They call the play "Veer A O Sucker," and it sure gave Brown a licking. "You false pull the guard and you get the fullback bustin up there," explained Restic. Don't worry, if you don't understand: the Bruins didn't either. When the guard pulled, the linebackers followed, the Brown sea parted and Ernst, now Harvard's leading rusher, raced off for the promised land...

Author: By Mike Knobler, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The Importance of Being Ernst | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...What's that?" Suder's reply: "That's an elephant." And then there is the joke about Suder's manager, an amateur taxidermist, who shows up unexpectedly and tries to kill Renoir with a chain saw: "I can't wait to stuff this sucker." By now, Suder has acquired other eccentricities. His cabin mate is a nine-year-old girl named Jincy, a runaway from her abusing mother. She comments: "This is weird. I'm in a strange barn, shoveling hay for an elephant that belongs to a nigger." Meanwhile, Suder has decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Laugh track | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

...went to Viet Nam. I vote. I do not run stop signs. And I report all my income. What a sucker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 18, 1983 | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...Hughie saw me as a sort of dream guy...I'll bet he lived a kind of double life...when a sucker cries for more you're a dope not to give him more." Although he's now broke because he donated money for the clerk's funeral, he maintains his sense of humor. "It sure was worth it to give Hughie a big send...

Author: By Andred Faxtenberg, | Title: Triple Take | 4/13/1983 | See Source »

...Gabriel Sucker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 6, 1982 | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

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