Word: counterfeit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also hit in the exchange of fire. The police then laid siege to the occupied building while French and Dutch authorities hastily acted to meet the terrorists' demands. One was that Red Army Member Yutaka Furuya-who was arrested in Paris last July after he was found carrying counterfeit bills, fake passports, and a plan for attacks on embassies and businesses throughout France-be freed. He was whisked from his Parisian jail to The Netherlands in a French air force jet. (Strangely, Furuya resisted the move so strenuously that when the plane landed at The Hague airport...
WHEN HIS son lives past the destined age of twenty, Honda realizes that he must be a counterfeit. Old now, and infirm, he travels to the abbey where his friend's lover Satoko is now the abbess. She receives him warmly, but denies any knowledge of him or his friend Kiyoaki...
...have grown uncertain about the social and intellectual purposes of education. Politicians throughout the West have trouble determining the boundaries involved in a free-enterprise system mixed with government control. Moreover, in place of the heady economic expansion of the past quarter-century, they must now cope with the counterfeit of growth?inflation. Even those who do not accept the gloomy prophecies of the Club of Rome realize that at least some limits to growth must be expected. The feeling of having reached a frontier, a limit of possibility, brings on grave anxieties and confronts politicians with an issue that...
...middle-aged lover sits on the edge of the bed, considering. The young girl wants him to underwrite their new affair with counterfeit emotion, the play money of compliments, declarations, vows. For once in his life he refuses. "Truth in a relationship," he insists to himself. "Surely it is a greater thing than kindness?" Greater, perhaps, but more painful: both he and the girl realize without saying so that their fling is already over...
...expressed some of my ambivalence as a hatred for Harvard, an institution I saw as a grim and sinister counterfeit of liberal values. Henry A. Kissinger '50 helped plan the policies which brought more long years of war to Indochina. There is no getting around it; the man should be tried as a war criminal in the name of every blind and dead little boy and girl in all of Vietnam and Cambodia. Harvard held Kissinger's chair in the Government Department open for him even as Indochina glowed with burning napalm fire; this University's values had retreated...