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Word: faked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jeff had the guy one-to-one and couldn't out-fake him," he laughed. "Campbell's just a poor broken-field runner...

Author: By Stephen W. Parker, | Title: Embree, Ajootian Cop Bronzes; Relay Tripped Up in NCAA | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

...feints and ruses of special operatives also worked at El Alamein, where Rommel was fooled by planted documents and fake troop movements. Hitler was conned into thinking that Sardinia, not Sicily, would be invaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Looking-Glass War | 2/16/1976 | See Source »

...eighteenth-century people who infallibly appear in his drawings use the ruins as cow fields (the Forum), houses (the Temple of Vesta), or buttresses for their own constructions (the Arch of Titus). The ruin was part of the landscape of the time--in the gardens of the Villa Borghese fake ruins were along with an artificial waterfall and a man-made lake. Piranesi's Characters explore the ruins as they would a natural wonder, they admire them and scurry on top of them as they would a huge tree, or a rock. The small figure looking up at Trajan...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: The Eternal City Exposed in Time | 2/12/1976 | See Source »

...next goal would be a crucial one, so with the third period half over, and Harvard on the power play, Crimson freshman and leading scorer George Hughes brought the puck into the BC end, left it for Hozack, and the junior center proceeded to fake Skidmore out of his jockstrap...

Author: By Michael K.savit, | Title: Crimson Skaters End First Term on Good Note | 1/21/1976 | See Source »

...Kubrick shot using only genuine candlelight--something Hollywood has never been able to achieve before for lack of a fast enough lens. Kubrick's Zeiss superfast lens does the trick alright, but leaves the faces out of focus. And the result is not qualitatively different from the kind of fake candlelight that Hollywood has been using for decades...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: The Titanic Sailed at Dawn | 1/15/1976 | See Source »

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