Word: hoax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pledge cards to sign. After the first seven students had signed, somebody bothered to read the pledge. "In the event of war with any foreign nation," said the card, "I will support or adhere to the government of such foreign nation." College officials blinked and blanched. Was it a hoax or a howler...
...Horrifying Hoax." These were reasonable objections by responsible men. Less responsible Republicans leaped in to the assault. Indiana's William Jenner jauntily took the floor and let loose a raging, spluttering diatribe...
...This is] a staggering swindle, a horrifying hoax" he cried. ". . . General Marshall is not only willing, he is eager to play the role of a front man for traitors . . . Marshall is a living...
...TIME'S thanks to City Editor Lee for a snappy but somewhat inaccurate rewrite job: it was late-arriving Reporter Orshefsky who discovered the hoax and told the Air Force about...
...time when American blood is again being shed to preserve our dream of freedom, we are constrained fearlessly and frankly to call the charges . . . what they truly are: a fraud and a hoax perpetrated on the Senate of the United States and the American people. They represent perhaps the most nefarious campaign of half-truths and untruth in the history of this republic...