Word: faking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thai students last week also found time for a demonstration against the U.S. It was sparked by reports in three Thai newspapers that an American CIA agent had sent Premier Sanya a fake letter purporting to be from a Communist insurgent leader in Northeast Thailand and offering a cease-fire in return for autonomy in rebel-held areas. The clumsy gambit, apparently, was to sow disillusion among insurgents by making them believe that their leaders were willing to settle for less than victory over the whole country. The demonstrators demanded the expulsion of Ambassador William R. Kinter; he remained...
...hardy band of amateur astronomers were asked by a television interviewer what they thought of Kohoutek's comet. "Flop of the century!" they agreed unanimously. At a comet party near Chicago, Astronomer J. Allen Hynek explained away the weak drink that he was serving his 800 guests. "A fake punch for a fake comet," he said...
Moreover, in a year when pro football languished on a bland, conservative diet of field goals and zone defenses, "the Juice" provided much needed excitement. O.J. would rip through the line, throw a lightning fake, and sprint for distance like a cheetah on the run. As Buffalo Offensive Tackle Bonnie Green tells it, "Blocking for the Juice-hey man, there's no telling where he'll be. He moves so catty, moving to the left and then back to the right. I never know where the Juice is, but when I hear the roar of the crowd...
...frighteningly intense," say the scouts-a "real door jam" against the offense. He led Tennessee State to an undefeated season this year (TIME, Nov. 12). Button is the man "who takes the play out of the play action pass." Deceptively agile for his size and "very tough to fake or trap on a rollout," he has been a standout for Nebraska for three years. Tackles: (3) DAVE GALLAGHER, Michigan, 6 ft. 4 in., 245 Ibs., and (4) BILL KOLLAR, Montana State, 6 ft. 3 in., 251 Ibs. The scouts do not know whether Gallagher, a pre-med student, will...
...canvas. Then he hung the stencil itself on the fabric-also upside down. A handy whisk broom was slapped onto another tapestry. Working on a third, Miró's eye lit upon an empty paint bucket; he rammed it into the composition then, as an afterthought, added a fake spill of paint made of canvas. He proposed scorching certain areas to darken the hemp, and soon the studio flared with gouts of kerosene fires, quickly lit then doused...