Word: bogus
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...coup, American ambassador Phillips Talbot tried to persuade her to resume publication. C. L. Sulzgerger, chief foreign editor of the New York Times , could scarcely conceal his delight at having that rabble-rousing Andreas Papandreou silenced. The so-called embargo on heavy arms turned out to be completely bogus when it was found out that the Pentagon was selling surplus heavy arms to Greece. In any case, the "embargo" was lifted this summer for "strategic" reasons. When the Commission on Human Rights' findings that torture is a practice of the Greek government induced the Council of Europe to expel Greece...
...rash of bogus-bill passing has brought counterfeit ten and twenty dollar bills into the hands of merchants throughout the Greater Boston area...
...general feeling among Harvard Square merchants is that the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas is prime time for bogus-bill passing. Many of them have gone through similar rashes of bad-bill passing before, at this time of year, although most merchants feel they could recognize a counterfeit bill by flaws in its size, color, feeling or detail...
Ordinarily, everyone has to wait until the day after the election to hold a copy of his dream aloft. But not Conservative Mandarin William F. Buckley Jr.; he put his dreams on a pre-election cover of his weekly National Review. A bogus New York Times front page reported the "glad tidings [of] a conservative tidal wave...
...fool Noah if he were reloading the ark. The duo representing the Two Crows wear black baseball caps with outsize yellow peaks. By cocking this headgear at each other with a kind of jerky solemnity, the pair reduce to a satirical shambles all of the world's bogus expertise and high-level-conference pomposity...