Word: foisting
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...ascertain whether there is any chance of driving a wedge between it and Hanoi-even though most high U.S. officials in Viet Nam believe that the North dominates the Viet Cong's political leadership. But South Vietnamese officials are so fear ful of a U.S. attempt to foist an N.L.F.-dominated coalition government on them that they have refused to consider any formal meetings. It is conceivable, suggested an observer, that the North is trying to drive its own wedge between Washington and Saigon...
...never told the viewer where he stands on political matters. "I have opinions like anybody else," he says, "and I might even be better informed than the average person, because it's my business to keep up on what's happening. But who am I to foist my opinions on the public...
...because the Supreme Court's new confession rules barred the key evidence against him. To be sure, McChan was also accused of leading a prison riot last July. But a Baltimore jury acquitted him last month, forcing frustrated Judge Joseph L. Carter, as he put it, to "foist a professional holdup man on the public...
...riddle books that have sold more than 5,000,000 copies, and a longtime panelist on that somewhat tiresome but seemingly indestructible TV parlor game, What's My Line? Wherever he goes, autograph hounds bark at his heels. Little ol|i ladies leap out of dark corners to foist "upon him shopping bags stuffed with autobiography. Cerf is the foist man in the world to welcome them (as he would put it). For who knows but that the next dingaling to come along will be the author of a bestseller...
Leading the attack on Mansfield's petition to impose cloture, Dirksen castigated the Administration's attempt to foist "compulsory unionism" on hundreds of thousands of U.S. workers. "The basic concept upon which the whole structure of Government rests," he said, "is the concept of freedom. God help us if we impair it, if we tarnish it, if we sully it, if we transmit it to the next generation in impaired form." Mansfield countered with harsh words. He decried "the resentments, the irritations, the vendettas and the whatevers against organized labor" that had prompted the talkathon. Noting the Senate...