Word: faked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very sophisticated and educated group of professional people." Drugs were ferried, for example, by a couple of former commercial airline pilots who are believed to have known the gaps in the U.S. coastal radar network. A communications expert monitored secret DEA radio frequencies, and a yacht broker painted fake water lines on hulls so that boats would appear to be empty and riding high when actually loaded with marijuana...
...have been targets of whispered charges of debauchery and homosexuality. Last summer the New York Times's Craig Whitney and the Baltimore Sun's Harold Piper were tried for "slander and defamation" for quoting a dissident's family as saying they thought his televised confession looked fake. After the reporters refused to publish retractions, they were each fined $72.50 plus court costs...
Baum ignited the laxwomen when she intercepted a Dartmouth pass, raced toward the goal and fed third home Sarah Mleczko with a quick pass. Mleczko pulled a quick fake and squeezed a shot past the Dartmouth netminder...
They're all alike, skepties claim. A guru is a swami is a holy man is a fake. And these scoffers never consider spirituality again...
With one second left and the score 4-3 against her, she faked to one side of Sudikoff's body and attacked the other for a touch that had, apparently, tied the score. But after persuasion from the Dartmouth coach and the surrounding crowd, the director reversed his decision, saying the fake had come before the "halt", but the touch after...