Word: counterfeits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...free-enterprise system, he said, could live "one with another in a profitable and productive peace." U.S. democracy and Russian Communism could divide the world into spheres of influence and get along. Wallace offered "peace for our time." The coin was bright, but it had a faintly familiar and counterfeit ring...
...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...
Perhaps even Chirico could not be sure which of the Galerie Allard's paintings were Chiricos. His own guesstimate of his output is "between two and three thousand canvases." But whether or not some of his early paintings were counterfeit, critics infinitely preferred them to his recent products. Chirico, who once led the parade along with Picasso and Matisse, had run out of gas long ago. Now all he could do was blow his horn...
...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...