Word: fibbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...light mood, Australians did a little coining of their own. The 20 piece, which has Queen Elizabeth's profile on one side and a frilled-neck Australian lizard on the other, was nicknamed "the Twin Lizzie." The 100 piece, imprinted with the Australian lyrebird, was called "the fib." The 200 piece, which features a waterlogged-looking platypus, became "the Holt"-after Prime Minister Harold Holt, an avid beach enthusiast...
...whose every movement is classic, whose Western drawl is definitive, who can mug and joke, yodel and moan, tell a tall tale ("I don't believe in rebearsin' for recordings: and I never listened to them afterwards") so well that he has to explain that it was a slight fib after...
Assessing the scientific problems facing the Johnson Administration, International Science and Technology was not overly inspired by President Johnson's new scientific adviser. "Donald Hornig of Princeton is a virtual stranger on the Washington scene," sniffed the monthly magazine. That's a dirty fib, piped up one who thought he ought to know. Said Chris Hornig, 10, in a fiery, pencil-written letter-to-the-editor: "In a past issue you said that Donald Hornig was a virtual stranger to Washington. My father has served for three Presidents, and is in Washington so much that...
...Stripper. To compound the fib implied in the title, Producer Jerry Wald has hauled a matron named Gypsy Rose Lee into a few scenes at the beginning of this screen version of William Inge's 1959 play, A Loss of Roses. Fortunately, Gypsy does not strip; wearisomely, neither does anyone else. But Joanne Woodward gets guillotined...