Word: faking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often kept right on sending messages to London, using captured codes, and arranging for air drops of agents and supplies. London's S.O.E. security seemed incredibly lax. Agents had been taught to misspell words in predetermined sections of each message. Once, when the Abwehr sent a fake message through without the misspellings, London merely chided: "You forgot your double security check. Be more careful...
...Exile. Changing his name to Willy Brandt and posing with fake Norwegian papers as a "student," he slipped back into Germany in 1936, worked with the anti-Nazi underground for five months before returning to Norway. Studied history at the University of Oslo, went to Spain during the Civil War as a correspondent for Scandinavian newspapers and representative of Norwegian relief...
...bile leaks freely from the pen of Cassandra, whose reigning creative climate is the icy winter of discontent. In 20 splenetic years on the Mirror he has hissed a steady, indiscriminate choler, spraying such targets as physicians ("smooth, lying inefficiency") and dogs ("Man's Best Friend is a fake and a fraud"). A seething Germanophobe, he took the occasion of West German President Theodor Heuss's recent cool reception in England (TIME, Nov. 3) to prick the Germans with his needle quill: "All I want of them is to wait for a generation to pass before they come...
...post a notice on the bulletin board. The defeat of it all overwhelmed him--to have to admit to some eager sophomore that he hadn't gotten a date for the game. So Saturday approached and arrived and Vag set off for the game with a pair of fake binoculars filled with bourbon to fill the void left by a date...
...When the team was playing well, Sebbie regarded it as a minimum accomplishment--a shaky assurance that he, or rather Vag, was getting his money's worth. But when they fell behind, Sebbie lapsed into a stupor which added to Vag's depression. For consolation, Vag turned to his fake binoculars...