Word: feigning
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...Chancellor scorns Nehru's way of thinking. Adenauer even went so far as to break his no-Sunday-engagements rule in order to take Nehru on a cruise up the castled Rhine. They met three times for four hours, and both stubborn men had the honesty not to feign a friendship they did not feel. When newsmen asked the Indian Prime Minister whether he accepted Bonn as the only legitimate German government, he made a characteristically Delphic response: "You want me to plunge headlong into the sea before I learn to swim." Nor was Nehru prepared to give...
...negotiated reunification of Germany, but did it with the air of a man who didn't care who knows it. In effect, Soviet Russia told the world that it had already absorbed the benefits of Geneva's relaxation of tensions, and felt no further need to feign amiability. Or, as former French Premier Georges Bidault, veteran of many arguments with Molotov, put it in an article for I.N.S.: "Molotov is saying to the Western nations : 'You are not ready to blow out the flame of hope and peace you have lighted among your own peoples. Consequently...
...Investigation into the problems of man."Some 150 students daily come to the Hygiene building to get their temperatures taken or use one of its many clinics. The department's biggest plague is the number of students who feign illness to escape classes, exams, or R.O.T.C. drill...
...Britons to grow more food, make more steel, mine more coal and grow more prosperous is a form of "super-exploitation," which forces the workers to pay the costs of war. Iron International proposed to rescue Europeans from the web of "Wall Street-propagated productivity" by encouraging them to feign sickness, refuse overtime, work carelessly and damage factory equipment...
This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main...