Word: faking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rather confused over the dichotomy in your article, "Tulla's Coffee Grinder," between real and pseudo Bohemians. From the information supplied, we imagine pseudo Bohemians to be analogous to a fake quick kick. Could you enlighten us further on this matter? Harry Brunner...
...sham"--Bohemian can only be regarded as a lost one. Perhaps his perversity is in a masochistic love for Bohemia's punishment. He will never be a real Bohemian because some day he will return to class-conscious society. In Mr. Brunner's athletic terms, he is indeed "a fake quick kick" against a society which will one day welcome him back as a Prodigal...
After this fake little paean to peace, the Kremlin announced "a new nuclear explosion" had been "carried out at a great altitude." If the world by now was left a little breathless and confused, the distractions were working well. But not all the confusion was planned. Before the week ended, it was clear that the Kremlin was suffering from divided counsels, hot tempers and international distress...
...with one or two other ideas we should be able to cut our communications bill by 50%." The memo went on to outline a complicated "initial" code. Trucker John Doe, for example, would call the home office collect from Phoenix, Ariz., give his real last name and tack on fake initials, saying that "E. K. Doe is calling." The King dispatcher would thus know it was Doe, that he had reached Phoenix, and from the initials E. K., that his truck was empty. Then, naturally, the dispatcher would refuse to accept the call...
...incredibly beautiful woman with an unsymmetrical face. Most of the movie's fake German accents ring false but hers seems real. She has a wonderful aptitude for sizing people up, appraising who is good and who is bad, and doing something about it. She turns on the tears, proves a sound moral point, turns off the juice, and carries on. If Anatole Litvak, a great director of Swastikas and Spitfires, had concentrated on the good old theme of people--specifically the fascinating and irrelevant Hildegarde--he might have had a great movie on his hands...