Word: faked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Allied Armies found the Germans using mines so profusely that even veteran troops were amazed. Fifth Army soldiers reported meeting an increasing number of young Germans given to crafty tricks like fake surrender. Complained one lieutenant: "I don't know what the hell has got into them these last few days...
...Publisher Silliman Evans finally pot ripsnorting mad. Sun men went out to investigate. The usually meek Sun thereupon came out with these headlines: LABOR ASSAILS TRIBUNE SMEAR and TRIBUNE LIES. . . . Said the Sun: The Tribune's campaign was a "rotten and reckless piece of work ... a giant fake" born of the "fevered delusions and prejudices" of the Tribune's "hate-filled" Publisher Robert R. McCormick...
...Greatest Snoozepaper." Few days before, the Tribune had been soundly clubbed by the Hearst-owned Herald-American, which had scooped the "World's Greatest Newspaper" on the diary of a young divorcee, dead apparently by her own hand. Surveying the bathetic series (Title: "Me"), the anguished Tribune roared, "Fake." Smirked the Herald-American: "The World's Greatest Snooze-paper...
...never been able to get strong signals from his base, and this message came in surprisingly clear. By using his radio compass [he] was able to determine that this message was coming from a direction ahead of his position . . . he radioed back to his base, warning them of the fake...
They tested the capsules on 1,000 sailors at sea. Of those who got no medicine, 30% became seasick; of those who got fake capsules, 13% became seasick; of those who got the new pink capsules, only 6% became seasick. So the Canadian Navy is issuing the capsules to its personnel, the Army is getting them for invasion and airborne troops. As yet, nobody knows exactly how the pink pills work...