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(In a famous episode of "The Simpsons," Homer, Springfield's Bottom, draws "oxidize" but plays "do," while Bart tries to sucker him with "kwyjibo" — a species of ape, he explains, dumb and balding, that's native to North America).
What happens to that poor editor in "Best New Horror" is instructive: although he thinks that childish credulity has been burned out of him by those thousands of read and half-read stories, he discovers, to his sorrow (and sneaking pleasure), that it's still there, lurking in the shadows, waiting for a chance to sucker him one last time.
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Eva Braun "suckered him", and Goring made him look anti-Jewish when, in fact, by 1938, Hitler "wasn't anti-semitic at all".
Rollins suckers him to the outside and takes control with a clothesline.
"I remembered the sucker punch he gave me earlier in the game, so I thought, an eye for an eye, and I suckered him," Secord said.
"It looked to me like he suckered him — I'm not going to deny it," Avery's teammate Christensen said afterward.
When he beat Verdasco, he claimed afterwards he had suckered him into believing he was exhausted after losing the first two sets.
His excuse is that Arafat suckered him ("Don't you ever trust that son of a bitch," was his parting advice to Colin Powell), but now that Arafat's dead the Palestinians have two addresses instead of one.
There is some respite for the Canadian, as Djokovic first hits forehand long, but on the next point he suckers him into the net with a drop shot, before lobbing him to clinch the point.
This is all great stuff about an actor's motivation, but I'm thinking, as I take notes, of what would happen if I suckered him with the old "Look over there!" and, while he turned, chucked the coffee in his face.
DiMinico in turn blames former partner Joseph Salvani, a curious stock promoter with a colorful past (FORBES, May 4 , 1998, for suckering him into this and other deals that are the subject of yet more litigation.
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