Word: hoaxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hoax." The publicity was what nettled Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity, target of the protest for not having acted on the campers' requests for $1,356,000 in housing and training grants. Said OEO Spokesman James Kelleher: "They can sit in the park until Christmas, but we're not going to provide funds for something that's a hoax...
...students agreed almost unanimously that while on a high, traditions and social customs appear nothing more than a cruel hoax which society has used to limit the true potential of individuals. "Society and its customs have put blinders on us all, and pot takes them off. Instead of thinking the same thoughts in the neat manner that we have grown accustomed to, drugs allow the mind to wander and form free associations that hardly seemed possible without them. From the summit of a high one can see what trivia our anxieties are made...
...crooks concoct an elaborate hoax about being cops, and there is much hokum with rattling of Venetian blinds, fake phone calls, unscrewing of fuses, disguises of voice. But Lee Remick is a sightless Penelope with uncanny perception who carefully unravels in Act II everything that the crooks have carelessly knitted in Act I; it takes a pretty dedicated mystery fan to follow every purl three, drop one, of this crazy pattern. In Act III the mayhem picks up, and a refrigerator becomes the most electrifying actor in the house...
...least one level, it certainly had. Peking in splenetic fury denounced the peace offensive as a "trick," a "hoax," and "the greatest show on earth," featuring "freaks and monsters," meaning, presumably, the U.S. envoys. But America's allies and much of the nonaligned world clearly were impressed. Indian Prime Minister Shastri indicated to Harriman he would convey the American message to Russia's Kosygin-and did so as soon as he reached Tashkent for his peace talks with Ayub Khan. The Japanese, despite considerable reservations about the growing scope of the war, greeted Harriman warmly as shin...
Back home in Hawaii, Miyawaki gave a scrutably Oriental reason why he had undertaken the hoax: filial piety. His parents, he explained, "so much wished me to be a doctor that I could not let them down." Miyawaki still has a wistful sense of what might have been. "The oral examination wasn't hard," he says. "I think the reason I failed was my presentation. They asked me simple questions, and I tried to tell them about the latest research in the area of each question. I just flipped...