Word: hoax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group eventually began to wonder if Okada could turn the store's fortunes around. The final blow came three weeks ago when experts charged that Persian treasures shown last month at the main Mitsukoshi store in Tokyo featured costly fakes. When Okada refused to accept responsibility for the hoax and resign, the store's 16 other directors convened at Mitsui's urging and voted to fire him, relegating him to the post of "non-regular adviser...
...Dutchmen were killed on the same day that a "hit list" surfaced naming 35 people, mostly journalists, as targets of right-wing death squads. Most correspondents felt the list was probably a hoax and tried to dismiss it with sarcastic remarks. Some of the people named had long since left the country-although at least...
...first Waters told no one but his roommate. "If this is a hoax and it's one of my un-friends, I'll be really embarrassed," he says he thought at the time...
...hoax, as Waters found out when he showed up at the Coop last Friday, where a group of Coop representatives told him he would receive an engraved Harvard chair, a new suit, and some surprise gifts including, possibly, a date with Miss U.S.A...
...claimed credit for "executing" the officer because of American "crimes" against the Lebanese people. Western intelligence officials did not know whether the group was an offshoot of the Palestine Liberation Organization, a hit squad from Libya or some other Arab country, or indeed whether the report was simply a hoax...