Word: hoax
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...drama continued to unfold, there were rumors that it was all a publicity stunt or some other sort of hoax, and indeed that was one of the first avenues of investigation probed by the FBI. Then, too, there was the matter of Frank Sr.'s genial flirtation with a kind of shadow Clan of his own, consisting of high-echelon hoods. No one figured out the connection, if any, but many were prepared to view the kidnaping as something less than the real thing. They were wrong...
...school year waned, 11500 students attended a hoax lecture on birth control. But the term wasn't over yet--there was still the riot...
...particularly clever spoof of news broadcasting, WHRB last night out-did itself, providing listeners to "All the News" with a binful of wry and witty hoax stories. Catch these, fans...
...Senator Jesse Houghton Metcalf cried: "How on earth can we justify taking a decent living from the soldiers who suffered on the battlefields of France and pour it into the mudholes of Tennessee?" Arizona's Sena tor Barry Goldwater today calls TVA "a giant federal power monopoly-a hoax...
...article, appearing in the October issue of the magazine, introduces the work of Dr. Herschel McLandress, Hoax Professor of Psychiatric Measurement at the Medical School from 1951 to 1952. Based on the amount of time an individual's thoughts can remain centered on a subject other than himself, the new technique was hailed as a bold advancement in the assessment of human behavior patterns...