Word: pretend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sometimes pretend, through use of the dateline, that stories actually composed in the office were written elsewhere...
...professors made a special point of greeting him and saying (in more or less the same words) "Congratulations. Now you will begin to learn again." They sounded to Gene like television announcers, but he decided that it would be fun, occasionally, to go to classes. He particularly liked to pretend that the students were dominoes when, in unison, their heads and hands toppled down to inscribe the lecturer's latest truth...
...billion farm program has become a disaster of such magnitude that it deserves far better than partisan exploitation. So twisted and distorted is the normal farm economy because of subsidies that no honest candidate can propose an overnight solution. But by the same token, no honest candidate can pretend to be serving the national interest unless he makes solution of the farm scandal his urgent business. It is no answer to stand on the here-and-now, and it is no answer to go back to older remedies that also failed. The farmer, along with the rest of the taxpayers...
...back to Moscow. Last week another free-world newsman got the boot -but with a rare compliment. Brusquely ordered to leave Poland was A. (for Abraham) M. (for Michael) Rosenthal, 37, the New York Times''s resident staffer in Warsaw. The Communist Polish government did not even pretend that Rosenthal had been misreporting. Rather, it accused him of having "probed too deeply into the affairs concerning the Communist Party and its leadership...
...also a mistake to pretend that students are left entirely free from proselytizing and indoctrination in the classroom, but are only presented the issues and allowed to decide for themselves. We are persuaded in many areas: the scientific method is urged upon us, as is logic and rationality; democracy is often preached, and totalitarianism almost universally inveighed against; and in the humanities, standards of taste are handed down in a fashion that sometimes approaches coercion. Outside the classroom, some teachers feel even freer in pontificating on these and related questions, but there is almost no moral guidance or consideration...