Word: suckering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into the area the night before from Los Angeles. Cracked one student who sat outside in the cold night to hear Welch over a loudspeaker: "If that's the candy king who's going to save us all from Communism, then I'm an all-day sucker." Moreover, when subjected to sharp questioning after his speech, Welch declined further comment and soon withdrew from the premises...
...sucker for professional haters...
After brooding for six months about being fired as president of Chrysler Corp., William C. Newberg, 50, decided that he had been played for a sucker. Last week Newberg, who was forced out because of profits he had made from ownership in two of the company's suppliers, sued Chrysler. He charged that Chrysler Chairman Lester Lum Colbert and fellow board members had used him as a scapegoat to prevent discovery of "incompetence, maladministration, neglect, breaches of duty and self-dealing" on their part. He asked for cancellation of his agreement to pay Chrysler the $455,000 profit...
...policy lacks, in the vast neutral areas, is consistent and coordinated planning. The absence of such perspective has often been pointed out, but inertia apparently has triumphed over enlightened self-interest. To the honest neutrals America appears divided, hypocritical, and mercenary; to the slightly more Machiavellian, it seems a sucker...
...beyond reproach. But he has more, much more; he has virtue. At the end of the movie, after what has seemed to be pure fantasy and games, he manages to include a few scenes in which Tony Curtis, who has all along been playing poor Marilyn for a sucker, discovers suddenly that deep down where it counts he loves her after all, and does the noble thing. These scenes call to mind the "Love Slave" movies in which the hero finally escapes from his immoral torturers and flees to his faithful fiancee, or The Apartment, a later and more bitter...