Word: hoax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Durham, N.C., where for more than 25 years he has been testing theories and assembling statistics about "ESP-prone" subjects, Dr. Rhine fired an angry volley at Price's article, asked "whether a hundred or more research scientists ... are so stupid as to indulge in a gigantic hoax involving the hiring of confederates and such...
...British for their scrupulous accuracy. He did not claim credit for a raid on a North Wales army camp two days later by masked men with what sounded like Irish accents. At week's end four young British army officers admitted staging the raid as a hoax...
...following issue of the weekly, the associate editorial board, which had taken charge, printed an apologetic article under the five-column headline "Quarantine Hoax Backfires...
...sooner was the report released than importers demanded that ODM reverse its original recommendation. Cried Maryland's Democratic Representative Richard E. Lankford: the President's tariff action last summer was based on "a gigantic hoax, a deception perpetrated by those persons inside and outside the Government who are interested in fostering a protectionist policy...
...press corps (TIME, July 21, 1952). Our National Affairs section reported the first H-bomb explosion, but it was in Press that we later described the official bungling in the release of stories and pictures of the blast (TIME, April 12, 1954). Occasionally, we spot a hoax passed off as news, e.g., the widely printed story of a girl who went into a hypnotic trance when a crooner sang a love song. Our correspondent traced the whole affair to a pressagent's brain (TIME...