Word: concoct
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unblinking as dummies in a waxworks. They flatly refused to testify in their own defense, even after Soviet Spy Harry Gold took the stand to testify that Brothman had passed scores of defense blueprints to him, and that Brothman and his assistant, Miss Moskowitz, had gleefully helped Gold concoct a phony story for a 1947 grand jury investigation (TIME, Nov. 27). Last week in Manhattan district court, a federal jury found the two guilty of obstructing the U.S. Government's investigation of espionage. As an accomplice, Miriam Moskowitz faced a maximum two years' jail sentence...
...reported in detail in the CRIMSON, on three separate occasions after this offer, candidate Coolidge declined the same invitation. In the face of the third declination by Mr. Coolidge to appear at Harvard, the best that the HYRC could concoct to cover their failure was a patently ridiculous invitation that their candidate allegedly tended to the Governor to debate aboard the Coolidge sound-ruck as it was passing through Harvard Square. The Governor's campaign managers considered this stunt "insulting," but reitorated the Governor's willingness to meet Mr. Coolidge in orderly debate at the University. Mr. Coolidge's managers...
...assets of General Motors, with which to plunge in the commodity markets and manipulate food prices. In two massive buildings astride the Washington Mall-North Ag and South Ag-are eight miles of corridors and 4,844 rooms. In rooms stocked with calculating machines and tabulators, scores of statisticians concoct crop and market reports so potent that they could, if mishandled, send prices gyrating and throw the U.S. economy into galloping confusion...
There is nothing risqué in "The Facts of Love"; the title is definitely a misnomer. Oxford Films has made ample use of light comedy to concoct a generally delightful jibe at middle class England...