Word: faking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard freshman, she's three years shy of legal and has realized that along with many of her classmates, she has going to have to buy her passport into the land of legality--a fake...
Rather than join her not-so-high and very dry peers, Caroline decided to get a fake I.D. the following weekend when she went home for the Columbia game. Even in the Big Apple fake i.d.'s are hard to come by in these sobering times...
...popular store for born-too-late New Yorkers, Butterfly on Eighth Street, stopped selling fake i.d.'s after a Sixty Minutes expose led to their getting busted. Playland, in the heart of Times Square, doesn't make student i.d.'s anymore, and the bold black letters that read "Official Identification" on the cards that they now sell hardly look official. In addition, in order to legally sell fake i.d.'s, Playland has to stamp the cards "For Novelty Use Only...
Then, like Lazarus, the Crimson emerged from the tomb. Penalties and tough defense drove the Tribe back, and a fake field-goal attempt was thwarted...
...Thomas Lipton's towering boats for early 20th century America's Cup competitions. As Bertrand admits in Born to Win, he relied as much on gamesmanship as yachtsmanship. He called the boat's new forward-slanted keel his secret weapon, and only now confesses that the keel was a fake, intended only to unnerve the competition. He employed a sports psychologist to whip his crew into an athletic frenzy, then made his Ahabian prediction: "We are going to sail our boat as it has never been sailed before." So they did, and every pitch and yaw of the great race...