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Word: suckers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Players of the Week:Offense: Ciavaglia. Friday, the junior center opened the scoring with a swift shot by ace Colgate goaltender Dave Gagnon, then fooled the Red Raiders with a last-second sucker play that gave Weisbrod a goal and the Crimson a 2-0 lead...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: "Yes Virginia, There is a Hockey Team" | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

...sucker. For the past three years, I honestly believed that Harvard would offer the one course I have always wanted to take, Gen Ed 154, "Puerto Rico in the Twentieth Century...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Puerto Rico: Swept Under the Rug | 9/27/1989 | See Source »

...There is a sucker born every minute,"--P.T. Barnum...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Puerto Rico: Swept Under the Rug | 9/27/1989 | See Source »

...back to the concert stage, enough savvy to have harvested $2.73 billion in the last year from bettors in its casinos, and enough allure to be the most popular destination in America. But the benefits of this resurrection have been unevenly shared. "This is a town noted for taking suckers," says Thomas Carver, president of the Casino Association of New Jersey. "But it's the biggest sucker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atlantic City, New Jersey Boardwalk Of Broken Dreams | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...today's fast-buck standards, farming is a sucker bet. The risks greatly outweigh the rewards, unless, like Bauer, you count looking up from your chores to watch a flight of geese or down at some of the richest soil in the world. According to Sally's accounting, the year Rhodes hung around was so-so: the family netted $19,000 on a gross income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In The Dell | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

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