Word: foisted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Johnny was named Seattle's "Man of the Year," and at a big civic dinner, with the governor in attendance, Johnny took over the mike to explain how such a little fellow could be so good. Deliberately feigning a strong Jersey accent, Johnny grinned: "Well, foist youse baffle 'em wit science and den youse have a brudder like mine...
...other government that feels it has been misrepresented by U.S. papers. U.S. Delegate Charles Sprague, ex-governor of Oregon and publisher of the Salem (Ore.) Statesman, called the treaty a "hazardous step" because it would force a government to distribute to its press any propaganda other countries wanted to foist upon it. The Russians and their satellites also voted against the treaty on completely different grounds: they are still pushing for a treaty that will stop the "warmongering of the Western press," i.e., any news the Communists don't like. Even though the U.S., Britain and other countries will...
...large degree on our ability to see and correct the evils of our existing institutions, sooner than to throw our system overboard in favor of any one of the many forms of Utopia which our Washington D.C. reformers and some collaborators in university classrooms are trying to foist upon...