Word: counterfeited
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...Painter Chirico has held to his contention that surrealism's fodder is worthless fare. Now he got around to blasting the sins (or possibly imitations of the sins) of his own youth. Squawked Chirico: 19 out of 25 "early Chiricos" exhibited recently by Paris' Galerie Allard were counterfeit Chiricos...
...spite of the fact that theirs has more adherents than any other party. Furthermore, local headquarters were padlocked by Communist-controlled police, and the Government had armed a "reserve militia" of 30,000. Another particular of the indictment: members of Poland's German minority had been supplied with counterfeit Peasant Party membership cards to brand the party as pro-German. Cried Mikolajczyk: "This is nothing but a political fight, which tries to make our work impossible and perhaps wipe us off the face of the earth...
...next 20 months he was a P.W. in Italy and in Germany. Under the terms of the Geneva Convention, officer P.W.s may not be forced to work. Both in World War I and in World War II, hundreds of them worked like mad-digging hidden tunnels, forging counterfeit papers, tailoring civilian-like disguises, anything that might eventually help them escape...
...Besson had one foot over the window sill of his Paris flat when police broke in and collared him. The raiders also found stacks of counterfeit food and clothing coupons; a rackful of fake government rubber stamps; a veritable alchemy plant and enough pieces of gold to light the eyes of Captain Kidd...
Thus unmasked as the leader of a counterfeit gold coin ring, the 24-year-old, French Canadian Besson admitted that high finance was in his blood-he was a nephew of the late, crack-pate deputy Philibert Hippolyte Marcelin Besson, called "the Incredible," famed for his Ed Wynn hairdo and his Europa Dollar. The Incredible, who flourished in the '303, had a theory: Europe could cure its ills in a jiffy by adopting his "international currency based on hours of labor." He burned up the Continent's roads on a motorcycle with wide-open cutout trying to peddle...