Word: fake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bullets, and made a lot of cocky statements to the press after the game. he completed nine of 16 passes for 120 yards, ran for 78 yards on seven carries, punted for a 36-yard average, scored one touchdown, set up another, and ran for 20 yards on a fake pnt when his roommate screamed, "Daylight!" from the sidelines...
People tend to believe what they want -or need-to believe. A recent Chicago Daily News and Sun-Times survey found, for example, 17% of those interviewed in Charlotte, N.C., convinced that the Apollo 11 moon landing a year ago was only a Hollywood fake. On quite another level, many Americans will not countenance the thought that U.S. soldiers could possibly have massacred Vietnamese civilians...
Nowadays, trapping is on the wane, a victim of the fake fur, depressed pelt prices, new roads and population growth. Such is the lure of the Alaskan wilderness, though, that perhaps 110 professional trappers are still at large. TIME's San Francisco Bureau Chief Jesse Birnbaum visited one of them, Missouri-born Joe Delia, 40, a tall, rugged woodsman with hard, spatulate fingers, a laughing face and an abiding love for the outdoors. Birnbaum's report...
...think it was only to make sure I recognized him. Now he doesn't wear them at all. Beethoven," she adds, shattering nearly everyone's preconception, "hasn't got that crabby look." Even celebrated musical doubters show a grudging respect for Rosemary. "If she is a fake," says British Composer Richard Rodney Bennett, "she is a brilliant one and must have had years of training. Some of the music is awful, but some is marvelous. I couldn't have faked the Beethoven...
Shirley, quite the other way, has a compulsion to give everything, including herself, away. When one of the bores and deadbeats she has befriended lets her down, she picks up another. When her nasty little painter friend Renata chooses to try a fake suicide the day after a real abortion, Shirley ditches her husband on a sacred Saturday evening he had reserved for taking her out to dinner and spends the night at Renata's flat. Philippe, ever logical, goes home to mother and has a liver attack. Shirley, forlorn and illogical, goes to a restaurant and picks...