Word: suckered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clewley agreed the explosion sounded threatening. "That sucker was loud," the guard said. "It must have been a M-100 or larger firecracker...
...election effort was booting up, Nixon aides John Ehrlichman, Charles Colson and H.R. Haldeman asked Buchanan to launch a secret "plumbers" squad to investigate the President's enemies. But Buchanan spurned the offer, saying it was better to duke it out face to face than deliver a sucker punch. "I have yet to be shown what benefit this would do for the President--or for the rest of us, other than a psychological salve," Buchanan wrote in a July 8, 1971, memo now in the National Archives. After leaving the White House, Pat returned to the typewriter, turning...
...Linda Smith bucked her leaders by pushing in vain for radical campaign-finance reform that would have banned pac money and out-of-state contributions. As she said, "You can't perform surgery in a dirty operating room and with a team that hasn't scrubbed." LOW POINTS THE SUCKER AWARD: Republican presidential hopefuls rushed to genuflect at the Dallas conclave summoned by Ross Perot. Six weeks later, Perot announced the formation of an independent party...
...wife in a civil ceremony performed in 17th century English by New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Harlan is an understudy in School for Scandal, Randall's latest Broadway vehicle, which opened last weekend. "He spoke of two people becoming one," said Randall. "I'm afraid I'm a sucker for that kind of thing." Randall's wife of 54 years, Florence, died of cancer...
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