Word: fake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrong," says he, "but it's not easy to plunge ahead as if you were right without giving the other point of view." No one could ever accuse Cassandra of giving the other point of view on anything from dogs ("Man's best friend is a fake and a fraud, and the sooner he is taught to lay eggs or produce milk the better") to doctors ("I don't like their mumbo jumbo, their smooth, lying inefficiency...
...campus after campus, Redding found that hatred of America is an unwritten part of the curriculum. Hecklers bombarded him: "America carries on germ warfare . . . America's gifts are false gifts . . . Americans Go Home." As evidence of American "sex madness," students in Bombay produced fake pictures of coeds being stripped by American college boys -a farfetched reference to the spring fever "panty raids" of 1952. In Poona the students had been shown newsreel films of U.S. infantrymen threatening a parade of workers, but, as Redding quickly pointed out, it was 20 years out of date. The workers were the bonus...
...shampoos, etc. But the stuff was shoddy, the kissproof lipstick ran, and women went back to the black market. Last week, retreating but not beaten, state stores were selling "imported cosmetics" at up to twelve times the price of the local products. Even so, many were ersatz products wearing fake French and U.S. labels...
...diggers made no announcement. Like most anthropologists, they had been intimidated by the recent British proof that the remains of Piltdown man, reputedly 950,000 years old, were a deliberate fake. They did not want to say anything until the bones, which had been sent to Anthropologist T. Dale Stewart of the U.S. National Museum at Washington, had been scientifically authenticated...
...Your Information. In Durham, N.C., charged with obtaining more than $1,500 in fake death claims from the Charlotte Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., Insurance Salesman Leon U. King explained that he had falsified the claims merely "to disclose to the home office that it could be done...