Word: hoaxed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...truth is that Chavez's strike was a complete hoax. There was no strike and there was no more than a handful of workers in his United Farmworkers Union...
...success. Mayes, then a young journalist, went on to become a successful magazine editor (Good Housekeeping, McCall's). But he did not quite live up to the example of Alger heroes. The book that has been consulted by scholars for decades, Mayes has quietly revealed, is - gads! - a hoax...
...allegations drew a cascade of prompt denials from both U.S. and West German officials, who suggested, plausibly, that Capital had been the victim of a hoax concocted by right-wing intelligence agents hoping to further discredit Bonn's Social Democratic regime. Nollau pointed out several obvious errors in the purported CIA paper, and sought a court injunction to prevent Capital from printing the article. Citing "new information," the magazine promptly decided not to publish. By then, the episode had generated such a furor that Chancellor Helmut Schmidt worried aloud that West Germany might be succumbing to "spy hysteria...
Looking pale and drawn, Artist Edith Irving, 39, was paroled last week from a Swiss jail. She had served 14 months of a 24-month sentence, which was slightly less than the sentence imposed by a U.S. court on Husband Clifford Irving for masterminding the Howard Hughes hoax that put them both in the pokey. Edith was met by Emil Stengelé, a wealthy Zurich art-gallery owner who has bought the many paintings she made in prison for exhibition later this month. Her time behind bars revealed Edith's tough side: she disarmed an inmate who was attacking...
...science-fiction novelist. It actually occurred in Orlando, Fla., a few years ago. Only competent police work and a slip-up by the "bomber" revealed that he was in fact a 14-year-old high school honors student in science who was bent on nothing more than a spectacular hoax. What made the mischief so chilling was that nuclear blackmail by terrorist or criminal organizations is far from inconceivable. It is quite possible that a simple but devastating atomic weapon could now be made by one or more terrorists without advanced scientific and technical skills...