Word: bogus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made a direct appeal over the heads of the representatives of special groups--the farmers, laborers and business men--to cooperate in the supreme economic effort. And he pledged that the Allied war effort will not be impeded by the "faint of heart," by "bogus patriots," and "by a handful of noisy traiters...
There were only three other Scandinavian countries: Sweden, Norway, Denmark. Two of them were under the heel of the bogus Nordics, the Nazis...
...acting that goes with standard Nazi infiltration. Instead of the usual hocus-pocus about being "tourists," they assumed new roles. A large number were reported to have debarked at Beirut from a hospital ship as fake-wounded, bandaged, limping and laughing. Others, blond, husky, erect, entered via Turkey under bogus passports as refugee Rumanian Jews, their suitcases marked with large Js. At Aleppo, German officers were strutting about in shorts, apparently made up as sportsmen. It seemed there they were also miming French pilots. A group of French fighters which brought down a British bomber were said to have been...
...Psychologists For whom the living soul had bolts and screws Took the blind engines screw by screw apart For 'Readjustment'--not redemption, now--And working in the dark where none can work, With diagrams of the soul's machinery, Taught the new bogus teachers how to make Their automatic robots of mankind . . . Ready to click their heels at the right lie, And march, to Wagner's music, anywhere...
...working-class characters in The Living and the Dead are done as if from a Junior Leaguer's notebook. But the sterilities of Elyot, the smolderings of Eden, above all the nervous, bogus charm and climacteric rut of the mother, are very real indeed; and scene after scene is worked out with exactness and subtlety which no second-string novelist can scent, far less nail to paper...