Word: hoaxes
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...back to Meridian. Two days later, the burned wreck of their blue Ford station wagon was found twelve miles northeast of Philadelphia. While an army of FBI men and 400 sailors took up a painstaking ten-county search, many Mississippians preferred to believe that their disappearance was all a hoax. "They could be in Cuba," said Governor Paul Johnson airily. "They're just hiding and trying to cause a lot of bad publicity," pshawed Neshoba Sheriff L. A. Rainey...
...House killed in committee a voucher bill similar to Bennett's. California Democrat Augustus Hawkins, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, vows the same fate for the new measure, which he brands "a cruel hoax on the nation's very poorest families...
...times so unintelligible (the President, he writes, "had no concrete program to dislocate and traumatize the here-and-now of American society") and so stunningly self-centered (the Reagan revolution was not Reagan's, "it was mine") that it provokes a bit of perverse admiration. Surely this is a hoax. The onetime boy wonder of the OMB has to be better than he reads...
...that she had come across part of a human finger in a bowl of chili at a Wendy’s restaurant in San Jose, California on March 22, was taken into custody on charges of attempted grand larceny after law enforcement officials declared her story to be a hoax...
...need leadership from the U.S. to mobilize the intellectual and entrepreneurial skills required to effect the transition from an unsustainable fossil fuel world to an environmentally friendlier alternative. It is a cruel hoax to pretend that global warming is not a problem, that Alaskan oil can reduce our dependence on the Middle East, that coal can be cleaned to the point where its environmental footprint is negligible, and that we can be isolated from the problems of poverty and environmental destruction in Africa. We live in an interconnected world. It is our god-given responsibility to ensure that its proper...