Word: corded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pavlovich, who went under the name Jason Scott Cord at Harvard, has been unavailable for comment for months
...Viet Nam had divided the country and destroyed Johnson. Still, Humphrey clung to his mentor-and tormentor. Even in seeking the presidency on his own, he could not cut the cord. Fearful that a public attack by Johnson would destroy him with old-line Democrats and ensure his defeat, Humphrey failed to point the country toward a direction he knew it should go. Only late in his campaign did he step gingerly away from Johnson; when he did, his campaign surged. But it was too late...
When Jason Scott Cord, a third-year joint law and business student, went for an interview last fall with the prestigious New York firm of Cravath, Swain and Moore, he told one lie too many. Cord told the interviewer he was a big-time college placekicker, and the interviewer, who knew his football, got suspicious and contacted the University, and the greatest hoax in Harvard's history began to unfold...
...Cord, it turned out, had allegedly faked his way into the Law School with false transcripts, false recommendations and a false name. What's more, this wasn't the first time. Under his real name, Spiro M. Pavlovich III, he had entered the Law School in 1968 only to be thrown out as an imposter...
Pavlovich was admitted twice to the Law School with false transcripts, the second time as Jason Scott Cord...