Word: weaseled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SKEPTICS, THOUGH, doubt that such "troubled" teams are justified in threatening these moves. The teams which squawk loudest about the need to move to greener (astroturf) pastures are usually the most ineptly run franchises in professional sports. Owner-weasel-extraordinare Robert Irsay stole his Colts away to Indianapolis even after the city of Baltimore met all his demands. But even the most-loved and best-supported franchises are threatened by the machinations of greedy owners. The Raiders sold out more than 80 consecutive home games in Oakland before Al Davis took them to Los Angeles...
Rutger Fury, former editor of "Essays that Failed," is a former friend of that weasel, Jeffrey J. Wise...
Once the Mafia's top West Coast enforcer, Aladena ("Jimmy the Weasel") Fratianno became one of the Government's most valuable informers in 1977. Since then, he has testified at numerous trials and written two books on the Mob. The Justice Department placed him under the Witness Protection Program, and has spent $1 million protecting Fratianno and moving him to a secret location with a new identity...
Last week, however, the department decided that Fratianno had outlived his usefulness. The former mobster lost his government subsidy, and will have to live on book royalties and Social Security. For the Weasel, that is cold comfort. "I put 30 guys away -- six of them bosses," he told a reporter. "I'm a dead...
...White House staff, it looked as if McFarlane was trying to weasel out of responsibility for a policy that backfired. Chief of Staff Regan sniped, "Let's not forget whose idea this was. It was Bud's idea. When you give lousy advice, you get lousy results." McFarlane then issued a statement conceding in effect that he had eventually gone along with the arms sales in the belief that they were needed "to strengthen reform-oriented Iranians," but that the public saw them as part of a swap for hostages. Said McFarlane: "As a senior adviser to the President...