Word: fakes
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...Roosevelt buttons which Party workers presumably could not persuade anybody to wear. The Colonel did not apologize when the Chicago Times ran a full-page spread in which the Tribune's ragpicker re-enacted the button scene which he claimed a Tribune reporter paid him 25? to fake. Nor did the Colonel try to collect a $5,000 reward by the Times for proof of a Tribune headline and story that Moscow had U.S. Reds to back Roosevelt...
...meet Inspector Herman Lang, employed by the makers of the famed U.S. secret Norden bombsight. He was to set up a radio transmitter and operate it. So, weighted down with instructions, fake names, five messages in microfilm hidden in his watch, and $1,000 for a starter, William Sebold returned to Manhattan...
What they had been through was fake - a recorded A.R.P psychological test to see whether familiarity with the noises of air raids would make air raids themselves seem less terrifying to sensitive people. But even A.R.P. did not think that the raids these people would go through this year would be easier to take than last year...
...German Government and Major Belmonte, in a full-dress, press-radio-news-reel interview in Berlin this week, vehemently called the letter a fake, hinted strongly that it had been forged...
...chair, asked all manner of questions, submitted to unexpected electric shocks, put to work on an ergograph (machine to test muscle fatigue), given mechanical reflex tests. Without his knowledge a motion-picture camera hidden by a wall chart records every revealing facial reaction, every embarrassed ear-scratching, every fake posturing. His voice is tested for warmth of melody (strong sympathies and emotions) or hard, staccato timbre (calm and determined will power). His reactions to sounds are tried. His hand writing and physical appearance are analyzed. As a test of leadership, he is given a group of infantry soldiers whom...