Word: suckers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suspicion of the Pentagon is minor compared with the growing anger at allies that are thought to be playing Uncle Sam for a sucker; many are far more dependent than the U.S. on oil from the gulf, yet they are contributing much less than they could to the anti-Iraqi cause. "My constituents are hopping mad," reports Illinois Democratic Senator Paul Simon. At town meetings back home, he says, "the most often asked question was why we are doing this alone." House Armed Services Committee chairman Les Aspin warns that "if President Bush were to ask for a declaration...
...Obnoxious Child: Even worse, and just as likely, is for the proud parent to plunk their kid down next to me. "Oh, look, you can sit here next to this nice young man," they say. But what they mean is "Oh, look, you can sit here next to this sucker...
Dull stuff, prudence. Anthony Holden never hesitated: he wobbled out into the night. But as Holden, a British literary critic, reached the Golden Nugget's cardroom, he remembered the gambler's formula for chump detection: "If you can't spot the sucker in your first half-hour at the table...
Whether or not Holden is the sucker is pretty much the plot line of this funny and amiable account of self-delusion at calamity's edge. He is a better- than-average amateur poker player whose demons persuaded him to spend a year trying to beat the world's best professionals at their lovely, wily game. Holden started with some credit cards and a scrawny $20,000 in capital and played mostly in tournaments, in which players buy in for an entry fee and then risk no further money. He knew his cards, and he won some and lost some...
...bought a pair of stretch velvet leggings last year for $80 -- not exactly dirt cheap but top-notch fashion for the money. When I see stretch velvet leggings in the magazines for $500, I wonder what the other $420 is for. That's not style, that's trying to sucker...