Word: counterfeited
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Balanced Judgment. In Louisville, charged with passing four counterfeit $100 bills. Gambler Eugene T. Luker testified that he won the money with crooked dice...
Recently, when Milan's Maggioni pharmaceutical company learned that a drug counterfeit ring was using its label to sell fake tranquilizers, cortisone and heart tonics (distilled water for liquids, common starch for pills), the call went up for Tom and his 31-man "Mercury" detective agency. Going after a gang that he called "hairy-gutted animals-worse than Murder Inc.," Tom recorded conversations with suspects, using a tiny microphone worn like a wristwatch, snapped telephoto pictures with cameras guyed on field glasses, rigged up a periscope on the radio aerial of his car to enable him to peek inside...
Quid Gloves. In London, Scotland Yard discreetly looked into the matter of a counterfeit ?1 note that turned up in the bar of the House of Commons...
...course, testified witnesses, Lormar offered certain competitive advantages. While other distributors sold top-label records for 65? apiece, Lormar offered a cut rate of 55?. Eventually buyers discovered that the records had been pirated from genuine big-name platters and counterfeited in Cincinnati down to the color and code numbers of the label. Top hit on the counterfeit parade: You Can Make It If You Try, with 86,000 bogus copies in circulation...
...right. Word-dazzled one night while browsing through a thesaurus, onetime Newsman (Neosho, Mo. News) McCulloh wrote 35 especially incandescent words on separate pieces of paper. Then he stuck them in a box, pulled them out at random, tacked them together with appropriate connectives, and added a wry title: Counterfeit Generation...