Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...January 19th the New York Times revealed that Mrs. Ivinskaya and her daughter Irina had been secretly tried and convicted of currency fraud...
...bomb, but the human situation is complicated by another monstrous threat-totalitarian rule, as embodied by Russia: "By one, we lose life; by the other, a life that is worth living." The confrontation of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., each bomb-laden, has led to panaceas, abstractions and frauds in the quest for peace. Peaceful coexistence is one such fraud, according to Jaspers: "Peace never comes from coexistence, only from cooperation." What happens under the formula of coexistence is that "one side is hiding its will to eventual world conquest by coercion, the other its will to world conquest...
Officials of the Providence Post Office have investigated the College Record Club of Brown University and cleared the club of suspicion of fraud. Carelessness, rather than an attempt to bilk customers, was responsible for delivery failures, they said...
...letter went on: "We have many complaints regarding their methods and procedures and have referred various instances of their misleading acts to the Postal Inspection Department as fraud perpetrated through the U.S. mail...
Before Gunsmoke came along to stun the child mind, there must have been a bad moment in the youth of every American now in the cardiac bracket when he realized that Buffalo Bill was a bit of a fraud. He simply could not have done all the heroic things that he claimed to have done. Today's child will probably be surprised to learn that Buffalo Bill was not a phony-or just a legend like Paul Bunyan -but a real man, and an intelligent and able one at that...