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Word: fakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...compressed air. 3) Talk them into moving elsewhere. (This one came from a man who claims that he knows how to converse with pigeons. He asked for no salary, just free room and board until he gets the job done.) 4) Frighten the birds away with rubber rattlesnakes, fake owls or a yowling mechanical cat-with a dead pigeon in its mouth for extra effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Reno Gets the Bird | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...problem now-besides plugging the leaks and protecting informers-is fiding the tape. After Gallina's murder, investigators drew a blank in looking for the probable hiding place: a safe-deposit box he had rented under a fake name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Victim No. 21 | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

...wait! The battle of machines is escalating. In Virginia, the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. is testing for 90 days a service named "Dial-a-Busy." A patron who wants no calls dials a number, which activates equipment that sounds a fake busy signal if someone phones. To have the buzz turned off, the subscriber dials the special number again. If the test works out, the service will probably be expanded, providing privacy seekers with an alternative to disconnecting their phones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: On the Phone War Front | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

...past, someone would do a stepover and fake out everybody," including his own teammates, Coach George Ford said last week after the team's 5-2 victory over Wesleyan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What Happened, Andy? Where Is Dave Schultz? | 10/5/1977 | See Source »

Nevertheless, in 1687, the son of the old sachem sold Gay Head to the governor of New York for 30 pounds. In response to many Indians' protest, the General Court declared the original order was a fake, and produced an Indian who claimed to have forged it, a decision that received little respect from the Indians...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Whose Vineyard? | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

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