Word: fake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long-distance phone call from Los Angeles to Fountain Green, Utah. "We actually placed the call and recorded it. We got all the line clicks of the trunk lines, the rhythm of the operators as they moved the call from one relay point to another. You can't fake stuff like the authentic way an operator says 'One moment, please.' " Two telephone operators wrote in, praising the show. The telephone company wrote in, too, warning that their equipment could not be used for such stunts...
Others beside pickpockets made hay while the plativolos shone. Two employees of the Department of Communications and Public Works were fired for peddling fake photographs of discs to newspapers. A chiropractor advertised: "Stiff neck from looking at the saucers? Come and see me for a massage...
Mechanic's Clue. In Bristol, England, George Law recognized an auto stolen from him three years before, despite fake engine and chassis numbers and a new paint job, proved his ownership by pointing out a piece of chewing gum he had once used to patch an oil leak...
Rock is much slower afoot than most collegiate players, but offsets this lack of speed with an uncanny faking ability. Although he has an effective set shot, most of his scoring occurs when he travels parallel to the backboard, takes a quick fake, and then spins in a layup with either or both hands...
Inside, Incom told the story, which would not have sounded strange to readers of New York's old tabloid Evening Graphic.-The picture was a fake-or what Incom called a photomontage. Incom's editors had cut out the heads from an old photo of Ingrid and Roberto, and with some paste and an artist's deft strokes, superimposed them, with others, on a photograph posed against the background of a hospital room (see cut). For readers who might feel tricked, Incom ran the original photographs inside, along with a diagram showing how they were mated...