Word: foisting
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White was born in Brooklyn, where he attended Polytechnic Preparatory School and learned to speak a vocabulary in which "first" is still "foist." When he came to Harvard, he knew only six people in his class, but he widened his acquaintance by trying out for football manager (unsuccessfully), stroking a 150-lb. crew in his sophomore year (his shell got tangled in high grass during a race against Middlesex School), and writing for the Lampoon...
...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...
Tennessee Foist...
...long, O Tennessee, will you foist upon the other 47 such as Estes and Frankie Clement...
...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...