Word: hoaxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another Buddhist Hoax? Sir: That so-called Highlanders' rebellion [Oct. 2]-is it only the word of the Viet Cong? Or are we witnessing another "Buddhist"-type hoax in which the Viet Cong agents are agitating while the policymakers of the State Department are encouraging them in an attempt to exploit the situation as a pretext for taking advantage of their position as "allies" to install some kind of military or political bases more strongly in the highlands, in default of being able to do so in the lowlands? At any rate, it would be a hoax equivalent...
Another Buddhist Hoax...
...cried: "When all is said and done, there's only one real issue in this campaign-character versus corruption. And in Barry Goldwater we have the character, and they can have the corruption." In Reno, Nev., Miller condemned the Administration's war on poverty as "a cruel hoax on the American people, put into effect two months before the election, not with any thought of correcting poverty but only to buy votes for Lyndon Johnson with taxpayers' money...
...Summer School fell victim this summer to a popular hoax: the non-existent student. A group of Harvard graduate students, several holding junior positions on the Summer School administration, created a Princeton junior, Barton Durstine Osborne, and engineered his admission to the Summer School...
...government is no less than a thrilling experience." But in a news conference, he gave a foretaste of the campaign to come. Said he: "I'm tired of the Democrats trying to create problems at election time so they can solve them. The poverty program is a cruel hoax. You couldn't cure poverty in New York City with a billion dollars. Who knows anything about poverty in this Administration? Bobby Baker is the chief expert on poverty in Washington...