Word: hoaxing
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Actually the swim, undertaken as a physical outburst against his family, ended as a hoax; and the newspaper description of him as an "ex-Harvard star" drew only one comment from Crimson swimming coach Harold S. Ulen: "I never saw any starts...
...comrade-in-arms. The President promptly presented an autographed pen set and an American radio to Zhukov as a gift for the bride (TIME, Aug. 1). A few days later Reuters, a British news service, spread throughout the world a silly story that the wedding was a hoax because Zhukov actually had no daughter. The picture was Marshal Zhukov's way of answering Reuters...
...Durham, N.C., where for more than 25 years he has been testing theories and assembling statistics about "ESP-prone" subjects, Dr. Rhine fired an angry volley at Price's article, asked "whether a hundred or more research scientists ... are so stupid as to indulge in a gigantic hoax involving the hiring of confederates and such...
...British for their scrupulous accuracy. He did not claim credit for a raid on a North Wales army camp two days later by masked men with what sounded like Irish accents. At week's end four young British army officers admitted staging the raid as a hoax...
...following issue of the weekly, the associate editorial board, which had taken charge, printed an apologetic article under the five-column headline "Quarantine Hoax Backfires...