Word: counterfeiter
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Shamir added that Knesset approval would lead to "a counterfeit peace built on an Israeli surrender...
...glorious commander." To the Japanese, whom he outwitted at nearly every turn, he seemed endowed with almost superhuman powers. Yet Franklin Roosevelt privately labeled him one of the two most dangerous men in America (the other was Huey Long), and Harry Truman called him "a counterfeit...
...fear of being spotted by lawmen. When driving in cars, they always monitored police radios. The fugitives among them went out only at night. None had any contact with their families. All had aliases and would change them as often as once a week, but they never used counterfeit forms of identification. Instead, they got genuine driver's licenses and other documents from sympathizers within governmental agencies...
...only in Darien but all across the country, and indeed the world, that old-time religion is being recycled with ever increasing zeal. Countless people like Lee Buck were brought up to think that revivalism is the province of faith healers, holy rollers and counterfeit preachers?a thing of bad taste, or bad theology, or both ?and just possibly a sign of simple-mindedness or galloping hypocrisy as well. Yet there they are today, down on their knees at prayer meetings. They are pursuing the word day by day instead of settling for the sudden thrill of religion only...
...could also be people with freshly minted false identities: Government-aided fugitives attempting to shed the past and escape someone's vengeance after a lifetime of violence and criminality. Almost twice a day, under a little-known federal program, the Justice Department creates a new personality, complete with counterfeit Social Security card, driver's license and educational and job histories, and foists the ex-criminal on a largely unsuspecting public, far away. The reason is that the offer of such protection is one of the few ways in which Government prosecutors have been able to get frightened members...