Word: hoaxing
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...Patrick T. Campbell School, Mrs. Edna Pezzolezi, an officer of PUSH ("Parents United to end Schools Hoax"), said her group had complained to the principal of the school about the quality of education there. "He told us that it didn't matter, that these children weren't doing anywhere anyway," she said...
...about time that a respected musician had the courage to expose the hoax that conductors have perpetrated on the music-loving public...
...half of the title represents the time allotted to a forward looking Nazi shrink (Rod Taylor) for extracting Allied invasion plans from an American intelligence officer (James Garner). His plot: drug Garner, then convince him (with a most elaborate hoax set) that he has had amnesia for six years, is in the tender loving hands of victorious Americans, and can only regain his memory through a "therapy" which consists of telling everything he can remember--i.e. the details of D-Day strategy. If this new-fangled ploy founders, Garner gets turned over to the pudgy S.S. man waiting...
...Ross felt they had proved their point that the press was out "to amuse rather than inform." "In their haste to present stories that are eye-catching and entertaining, too many of the news media have sacrificed accuracy in their reporting," they decreed in a statement explaining the hoax...
Hearing a radio report that a student at American International College had set a new record by remaining in a shower for 15 hours, on Dec. 10 Richard Wideman and Yan M. Ross set out to plan the Great Shower Hoax...