Word: concoct
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Sixty-one students, five of whom were not in attendance at Harvard during the fall term, failed to register. Late registrants must make their presence known with the Registrar's office and unless they concoct brilliant excuses they face disciplinary action, most probably in the form of a fine, at the Dean's Office...
...secret session of the Cominform in Sofia last month, Communist leaders spent an entire day discussing Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, 56, Prince Primate of Hungary. The decision to arrest him had already been made; it remained to concoct just the right charges...
Finally, the film industry must itself raise the standard of film advertising. In most cases, cinema publicity is far more offensive than any film would dare to be. No sooner do Hollywood publicity departments concoct an advance campaign built about the usual theme, sex, than the self-chosen censors catch the scent, and like a pack of bewildered blood-hounds, bay along the trail straight into the press agent's trap. Some taste must be applied to film advertising if the scope of film censorship is not to grow. The motion picture industry must play a responsible role and clean...
...grasshopper defense. Last week a Brazilian military plane headed south from the U.S. with a two-ton load of flamethrowers provided in a hurry by the U.S. Gammexane, modern man's best bet in such warfare, was unobtainable, and the Biological Institute of Sao Paulo had to concoct its own insecticide right behind the lines. Experts agreed that only a miracle could save the farmers of southern Brazil. But cariocas were confident that the locusts would not come to Rio, because there (said they) everybody has to stand in line to get anything...
...foreign Communists reverse their nationalist line. For instance, genuine French nationalists see a military advantage in France's participation in a Western bloc of nations. But French Communists bitterly oppose a Western bloc because it might interfere with Russia's Eastern bloc. Thorez' job is to concoct just the right mixture of nationalist and pro-Soviet policy...