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Word: faking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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With two minutes remaining, an incredible fake by the UMass backs drew a penalty which they converted into three points, sealing the 13-12 victory...

Author: By Judy E. Bernstein, | Title: Rugby | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...ways to get around them. One approach, they decided, would be to play up to friends abroad. "Even if you haven't heard from them for years," suggested Liberation, "persuade them to put you up and change your money." Another notion: put on a suit and tie, obtain fake credentials and pass off your holiday as a business trip. Finally, in a gibe at the French bureaucracy that still has to come to terms with what is clearly an administrative nightmare, one commentator proposed that travelers simply smuggle their money out. "Just walk with your head high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Great Vacation Flap | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

Allis, who raced in the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Olympics, served as the movie's technical adviser and was in charge of both recruiting cyclists from the area for the fake race, and for making it appear authentic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bike Club Coach and Member To Appear in Boston TV Pilot | 3/18/1983 | See Source »

...astrophysics lab. ("It was bought for the moonrocks," Beale says, "but I don't think they use it much for that.") If the pigments and compounds used in the would-be Da Vinci do not match those from specimens that the master actually used, the painting is probably a fake...

Author: By Merin G. Wexler, | Title: Preserving the Past | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

Seeking a disguise, he ambles into a family costume shop. In just five minutes' time, he devastates the store and unwittingly compliments the wife on her tremendous, hairy fake proboscis--which turns out to be real. Back at the office, he accidentally sets his office on fire--and showers his irritated co-workers by triggering the sprinkler system...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Back on the Trail | 1/13/1983 | See Source »

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