Word: hoax
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...hoax-in retrospect, guilty only of being 75 years premature*-leads off this easygoing anthology of flying life and lore. Editor Jensen, a World War II fighter pilot, has rummaged high & low for a collection which should leave flying buffs cooing happily and give even the uninitiated an occasional kick...
...last week an excited farm hand rushed into the Chamberlain farmhouse clutching a bottle of oil. Suspecting a hoax, Mrs. Chamberlain at first accused him of siphoning oil from the farm tractor. But it was no joke; the oil came from a gushing well on the farm, sunk where Chamberlain had drilled in vain 40 years before...
...bases his answers on the odd premise that Christianity and capitalism are, if not completely equal, at least inseparable. And like most young absolutists, he empties the baby with the bath. The only way to save Yale, says he, is to have the alumni rise up and quash the "hoax of academic freedom" once & for all. It is all very well for scholars to pursue their researches wherever their researches lead them; teachers have no such right. Says Buckley: "Assuming [that] the overseers of the university have embraced democracy, individualism and religion, the attitudes of the faculty ought to conform...
Finally, when the Democratic majority brought out a report denouncing his charges as "a fraud and a hoax on the American people," Joe was ready. "Whitewash," he cried...
...Whale or a Hoax? During World War II, the monster became a military secret. It was reportedly seen by many servicemen, but the region around Loch Ness was a Commando training ground, and to quote the soldiers would have betrayed the secret of their station. Both German and Italian airmen claimed to have killed the monster, but this, said the BBC, was quite untrue. Right after the war, the witnesses testified, the monster reappeared undamaged...