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Word: foisted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...standing is probably higher in his own country than it is in the rest of the world, which by and large has returned a massive verdict of disapproval. Not the least of that disapproval stemmed from the palpably hypocritical versions of history Eden has disingenuously tried to foist on the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Driven Man | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

Tennessee Foist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 24, 1956 | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...long, O Tennessee, will you foist upon the other 47 such as Estes and Frankie Clement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 24, 1956 | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...Trade-Off. What Charlie Wilson appeared to be calling "a phony" was indeed phony enough. The Democratic leadership of the U.S. Senate, aided and abetted by many rank-and-file members of both parties, was trying to foist off on the Defense Department an extra $1.1 billion for the Air Force-which the Administration, after arduous consideration, had decided it did not need. At the same time, but by no means the result of erratic happenstance-the Senate Democratic leaders, again urged on by bipartisan rank-and-filers, seemed determined to lop $1.1 billion off the foreign-aid program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ARMED FORCES: Charlie's Big Thumb | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

...find TIME [Jan. 23] giving the sport spotlight to amateur wrestling via "Bethlehem's Champ." It is refreshing to see such an article in the welter of stuff and nonsense intended to promote, rather than discourage, the utterly stupid "rassling" that callous promoters continue to foist on the naive public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 20, 1956 | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

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