Word: hoax
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...reality is this could have been prevented at many points along the way and it wasn’t. This was a conscious and deliberate attempt to perpetrate a hoax,” Barrow said...
...December 29, a letter faxed to media outlets in Bangalore claimed that a five-star hotel would be hit by bombs on New Year's eve, and the house of a major state politician would be attacked by suicide bombers. On December 30, the city had to endure five hoax bomb-threats, including one that was made to an IBM office...
...They just let me rot." BOB DOUGHERTY, Home Depot patron in Boulder, Colorado, on suing the company after store employees waited 15 minutes to respond to his cries for help?which they believed to be a hoax?in getting unstuck from a restroom toilet seat someone had smeared with glue
...From this miserable mutineer a stutter, / for when we are reading Dostoevsky in caves,” the narrator starts to grandly exclaim “My—” but breaks it with a wistful aside “(Has it been a hoax? The man on Belton Street selling poetry…)” before concluding, with a subtly shifted emphasis, “My fellows!” The phrasing is both interestingly complex and fraught with emotion. Admiring Robinson’s power of technique, however, does not guarantee understanding her significance. Some...
Some Mississippians were shocked that the cold-blooded triple murder had not turned out to be a hoax after all. "I just didn't think we had people like that around," said a Jackson high school coach. Others seemed equally shocked that someone had violated the "code" by squealing...