Word: faked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from pen points which had signed contracts for the building and the central highway, had been donated by the contractors and the workers. Before that, the bauble is said to have belonged successively to an Austrian nobleman, an Eng lish collector, a Paris jeweler. Skeptics claimed it was a fake. Either way, it had been a satisfactory zero milestone to measure off Cuba's central highway...
...Annie would send housewives raiding grocers' shelves by reporting that the Allies had dropped fake ration stamps. Once the station described a celebration honoring German railroad workers-most of them slave laborers. Said Annie: "At the end of the celebration, speeches were translated into Polish, Hungarian and Slovak-for the benefit of the assembled . . . workers...
...Toughest sound to fake is applause. And no hocus-pocus has yet matched the true click of a closing door. Result: studios keep large collections of various-sized doors to open & shut...
...person who prefers guesswork to investigation and reinforces his beliefs by asserting them frequently.* All who use pseudo-science as a short-cut cure for troubles, especially mental ills, are thobbers to some extent-e.g., those who apply to astrologers, numerologists, graphologists, self-styled psychologists with fake degrees (Ps.D., Ms.D.), spiritualists, hypnotists, some beauticians and gymnasium proprietors and advice-to-the-lovelorn editors...
...Santa Monica against twin risks. Within easy periscope sight from the Pacific, it was vulnerable to shells as well as bombs. Forehanded Douglas architects had their camouflage plan ready before Pearl Harbor. The moviemen made miniatures, photographed them from simulated bombing altitudes. Building a dummy airport, phony plant and fake residential subdivision (complete with washing on the clothes lines) took 2½ years, $2½ million. It was duplicated on the plant when war came...