Word: fake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Since we started in 1951 there's been only one application to make rain: The Worcester Farmers' Field Day, Inc. thought it would be nice to demonstrate science over the fair grounds by having a fake storm. But the Board turned down the request. You see, they couldn't pin point it or guarantee that the rain wouldn't spread to places where other people mightn't want...
...Ment, raising the problem for military engineers to consider, gives no solution. Even experts would have a hard time distinguishing a delayed-action bomb from a dud or a harmless fake, especially if the object had been seen to sink to the bottom of the harbor. Civil defense authorities would have to decide promptly whether to evacuate the city, and a wrong decision either way would prove costly. In any case, the threatening object would have to be investigated, and this would not be a job for the poor in spirit. "An atomic-bomb disposal unit," says De Ment conservatively...
...killing of a grocer and three children in a $7,000 payroll robbery. Hearst men got the four-year-old daughter of the grocer, the only survivor, to identify the killer as one of the Santo gang. Then the Chronicle went to work and proved the identification a fake. The Hearstlings had shown the girl the picture with the lower half of his face covered, and under such circumstances the girl's mother said her daughter would call anyone "the bad man who did it." It was clearly Reporter Bernice Freeman's week. Said she: "This has been...
Peking radio promptly dismissed the list as a "fake." But three days later, U.N. suspicions were confirmed. Australian-born Wilfred Burchett, correspondent for the French Communist paper, L'Humanité, wandered into Panmunjon to chat with U.N. correspondents. Communist Burchett, whom many U.S. newsmen remembered as a competent reporter for Australian Associated Press during the Pacific war, had previously acted as a news "leak" for the Communists. This time, he carefully let slip the fact that the Chinese were still holding an unspecified number of U.S. airmen who had allegedly been shot down over Chinese territory beyond the Yalu...
...combination of numbers, all right. Then an attendant noticed something strange: one of the numbers on the winning card was printed slantwise. Suspicious, he asked the winner to come back next day to collect her check. Then he took the card to the printer, who quickly pronounced it a fake...