Word: fake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...efficient overhead valve six and a long overdue overhead valve eight for the Lincoln line. But the Mercury is, perhaps, more typical of '52's cars with only a slightly modified essentially thirteen year old engine but sporting various types of chrome slashes and strips and a completely superfluous fake slot running across the hood...
...taking over because the country had lost confidence in the current "ward-heeler government." Batista, who had been a long-shot presidential candidate in the elections scheduled for June, also said: "I had news that President Prio, faced with the defeat of his candidate, was planning a fake revolution for April...
...Assembly's fears that the U.S. might leave France alone with a rearmed Germany on its hands. But the United Press quickly knocked A.F.P.'s "scoop" in the head with an official U.S. denial, and opponents of the government began to wonder whether the story was a fake to swing votes...
...sensation. Search for a Hero is his third novel, and though it may not be as engrossing as The Golden Lie (TIME, April 30, 1950), it shows an unusual gift for entering the lives of ordinary people. It is clearly the work of a writer who couldn't fake if he tried...
...attached an artificial hand to his sleeve, took a trip through the Holland Tunnel. After fastening his toll ticket between the plaster fingers, he whizzed by the collection station, left both ticket and hand in the grasp of a horrified attendant. In addition, he has diverted himself by planting fake pearls in oysters, coaching South Sea Island native youngsters in fantastic Troy-devised folk tales to be retold to gullible anthropologists...