Word: hoax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cruel Hoax." Still and all, Bill Miller entered 1964 as a politician without a visible political future. In 1962, he won re-election to Congress by a scant 5,702 votes out of 139,710 cast, and the prospects for this year were worse. Among other things, he could expect little help from Governor Rockefeller's state organization, since he and Rocky had been at odds off and on for a long time. He therefore announced that he would retire from Congress and return to his law practice in Buffalo...
...still no sign of the missing men. Some people shared the suspicion voiced by Neshoba County Sheriff L. A. Rainey: "They're just hiding and trying to cause a lot of bad publicity for this part of the state." But with each passing day, the possibility of a hoax seemed less and less likely. Whatever their fate, whether dead or alive, the case of the three young civil rights workers would reverberate around the U.S. for the rest of this summer and beyond...
...rightfielder of the Minnesota Twins is a hoax. He calls himself Tony, but his name is Pedro. He has claimed to be 27, but he is really 22. He swings a bat as though he were waving goodbye to his grandmother. And he is probably the only ballplayer in the major leagues who got turned down twice by the minors. But none of that is likely to keep Tony-or Pedro-Oliva from becoming Rookie of the Year and, just possibly, the only player in history to win the American League batting championship in his first big-league season...
...late spring, 1500 students attended a hoax lecture on birth control. But the term wasn't over yet. There was still time for another riot...
...arms and torn sneakers. He emerged looking grim. At Knoxville's Coliseum, he tore into political critics of his poverty crusade. "Those who oppose us are determined. They have already, last week on the floor of the House of Representatives, called this war on poverty a cruel hoax. I first heard that phrase in the 1936 campaign when they called social security a cruel hoax...