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Word: fakeness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Prosecutors said that Meinert opened an account there with $5 and a fake social security number...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Imposter Posing as Student Fools Campus Groups | 11/10/1999 | See Source »

Dominic Moore put the Crimson up for good at 9:10 of the period. Working the puck down low, his fake caused his defender to fall down, freeing his path to the net. On the mini-breakaway, Moore deked and tucked his shot through Allen's legs...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hockey Sweeps Dartmouth and Vermont | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...cowardly) porn-site operator had been looking for an AOL account to "bounce" his spam mailings out of--in this case, 1,700 of them. Once someone has your password, it's child's play for him to pass out, under your name, anything he wants. Sending a fake e-mail to elicit the necessary information is called password fishing, and Holderman is by no means the first to fall for it. Remember, the Melissa virus was first sent from an unsuspecting AOL user's account. And there is never any reason to give your AOL password to anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Be E-Hoaxed | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...horrendous the outfits and hairdos were. And it was a painful time for music, too--sure, there were one or two good groups, and I like 80s classics like "Too Shy" and "867-5309", but genres like hair metal (Stryper, Dokken, etc.) were a travesty, and those fake drum sounds that everyone used in the mid and late 80s were god-awful. Bear in mind though that I'm biased in judging decades by the fact that my fashion and music tastes froze in about 1982. However, to my credit I do find the 90s fashion and music quite palatable...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Professor Fun Facts | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...Prior to last week my only contact with Willis was laughing spasmodically at these lyrics. My main goal for the night was, simply stated, to get him to say funny stuff. I had been forced to fake my way through a conversation with his publicist earlier in the week. As she correctly suspected I only wanted to talk to him because he acts crazy. Which is not surprising--Willis is a clinically diagnosed schizophrenic who grew up in a hellish Chicago environment with his mother's abusive boyfriend...

Author: By Benjamin D. Mathis-lilley, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Sucking a Caribou's Ass?: An Evening With the World's Weirdest Rock Star | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

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