Word: hoax
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thermostat settings and gasless Sundays would so quickly become routine?-many Americans are asking not how the nation has managed to avoid the worst but whether there really is any energy shortage worth worrying about. Growing numbers are voicing suspicion that the whole emergency has been a hoax engineered by the oil companies to squeeze out huge price increases...
...year sentence for dreaming up an "autobiography" of Howard Hughes and selling it to McGraw-Hill for $765,000. Irving had hoped to spend Christmas with his sons, Nedsky, 5, and Barnaby, 3, especially since their mother Edith is sequestered in a Swiss jail for her part in the hoax. Instead Irving will be sprung on Feb. 14, 1974. It seemed almost as heavyhanded as Irving's own joke, but then the board could have chosen April...
...support is steadily crumbling. It is not too surprising that the liberal Atlanta Constitution would react to the missing tapes episode by calling it a "preposterous hoax," or that more than 200 political scientists would form a group to promote impeachment, or that the Society of Friends in Seattle sent a letter to the President "prayerfully" asking him to leave office, or that a poll of 393 Yale alumni and their wives showed that 70% favored an inquiry into impeachment. What is more ominous for Nixon is the collapse of some of his most loyal props. In a striking about...
...claiming responsibility for the Austrian operation. It warned the "friendly Soviet Union that its embassies and interests in the Middle East and the world will be a target for the strikes of our guerrillas, unless it stops emigrant operations to Israel." Arab spokesmen later claimed the statement was a hoax...
...Hoax and Fraud. The Chinese, in turn, celebrated their birthday with a few good licks at the Russians. The People's Daily warned the Chinese to be on guard against surprise attacks by social imperialism, a pet designation for Russian policy. As for Brezhnev's peace offer, the Chinese dismissed it as "a hoax and a fraud." They told visiting British Journalist Neville Maxwell that they and not the Russians had taken the first steps toward trying to resolve the tense confrontation that exists along their long border with the Soviet Union...