Word: fake
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confident enough to fake Colavecchiodown and backhand the puck in the open side togive Harvard a two-goal lead...
...letter to The Crimson, Spitzer said when she was in college she telephoned a fake bomb threat "as a joke in honor of Guy Fawkes' Day." But she said jokes can get out of hand. Because of the missing four-foot-high gate, her dog escaped Sunday morning and was almost hit by a car, she said in the letter...
...years ago, when she met a pitchman for the Arizona Career College. With promises of a dazzling career, he persuaded her to drop out and enroll in a $5,000 "computer communications" course. She would qualify for a federally guaranteed student loan, she was told, if she would fake her age upward a year to 17. Though her school guidance counselor warned that she lacked the skills for such a program, Hernandez enrolled, only to quit when the going got too rough. Now receiving bills for $4,400 in outstanding loans, she baby-sits for a precarious living. "I just...
...view the issue of teenage drinking as an exercise in damage control. They find sterner attitudes and tactics -- imposing curfews and chaperones, smelling the breath, searching the room -- impractical and unenlightened. Many recall their own experimentation with booze and resolve to teach their children how to drink responsibly. Since fake identification cards, drive-through liquor stores and unsupervised parties are facts of adolescent life, parents are determined to walk a precarious line between tolerance and restraint, to encourage moderation and keep the lines of communication open...
...Wolfe's book came out the city had at least two of those. Yet Wolfe's message remains clear--the public frenzy generated about the trial is the empty hysteria of an uncomprehending city. In a final touch of verisimilitude, Wolfe concludes his work with an old journalist-style fake New York Times article...