Word: hoax
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...fake Yale Daily News said that Yale was tearing down the Bowl and was replacing it with a domed stadium in downtown New Haven. A hoax Crimson issued the morning after The Game in 1972 announced Henry Kissinger would return to Harvard in January...
...When I saw it I thought it was a hoax at first,” said Le Zhang ’07, “but I checked it out and assessed the risk, and it seemed pretty legitimate...
...VIBE: Funny and frank (John Travolta is too "old and overweight" for a Pulp Fiction prequel), this director's diary is a hoax. But it's so clever even his publicist approves. RATING...
...nothing like the passage of time to make the world's smartest people look like complete idiots. So let's look at a few more. In 1883 Lord Kelvin, president of the Royal Society and no mean scientist himself, predicted that "X rays will prove to be a hoax." When Gary Cooper turned down the Rhett Butler role in Gone With the Wind, he is said to have remarked, "I'm just glad it will be Clark Gable who's falling flat on his face and not Gary Cooper." "Everything that can be invented, has been invented," announced Charles...
...Chirac denounced the "anti-Semitic aggression this young woman and her baby were victims of," and demanded its authors be "tried and convicted with all the severity merited." But the details of Leblanc's story could not be verified, and by July 13 she admitted it was all a hoax. No one felt vindicated, however, for the simple reason that the tale had been completely credible - France today is a place where such acts of anti-Semitism and racism are commonplace. "If reaction was so intense, it's because people unfortunately know that such a horrific scenario is plausible," says...