Word: cheating
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Jack Jefferson, making him more defenseless and unblemished than Johnson's staunchest supporters ever claimed. Sackler's character has none of Johnson's sensual excesses (and only one all-suffering white wife, drearily enacted by Jane Alexander). The ironic sense of his own destiny which allowed Johnson to cheat and compromise his way to personal security is switched to Jefferson's stereotyped Jewish manager-and how Sackler, Ritt, and producer Lawrence Turman must have masochistically gloried in that character's representation! Even Johnson's superb defensive fighting style (displayed recently in two documentaries, The Legendary Champions and Jack Johnson...
...paper which he presented to this meeting- it's an interesting paper- a study of how to manipulate, cheat, and coerce in such a way that you can win the elections even though you don't have any popular force on your side, and the minutes of the meeting are really quite amusing. Most of the people are sort of skeptical whether we can do it and they suggest other ways...
...vandalized, almost everybody has to pay some part of the bill-through higher insurance rates. Changes in society, including the real or imagined decay of moral standards, have also exacted a toll. Insurance executives used to assume that loss claimants were honest; now the presumption is that many people cheat a bit. Greedy motorists and crooked repairmen conspire to kite repair bills and split the dividend. Noting that fire losses have climbed 15% so far this year, one Manhattan insurance broker says: "No one ever loses an old suit in a fire...
Well, basically he revealed the truth that many of us who have played baseball-even as kids-suspected all along; baseball players, like dentists, or doctors, or Presidents, are human. They enjoy ogling girls. They get drunk. Some of them are fascists, politically and personally. Owners cheat the ball-player on his way up and down. Mickey Mantle climbs up on the roof of a hotel to look up the dress of the girl in the building next door. Such things, under normal circumstances would humanize the hero, making him lovable if a bit eccentric. But they are also truths...
...Alameda County alone, the welfare budget has risen $24 million in one year to $136,666,000. "End the legal cheating," Mrs. Whitner demanded of the supervisors. Just in case the point was missed, she presented examples from her own experience, including the names and addresses of offenders. "If you won't do this," she threatened, "I'll teach others how to cheat." The official response was a yawn. That was a mistake...