Word: hoaxing
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Walking through campus, chewing on mints, we anxiously eyed the horizon, fighting off fears that it was an enormous hoax, that we were about to be trapped, mobbed and burned by ferocious hordes of Smith women too long victimized by male invaders. "No!" we would scream, as they tied us to the stake, "No! We're not marauders. We are but simple voyagers to the innocent days of fourth grade past. Avast, ye scurvy broads, we bring not lechery and disease, but valentines and tootsie-roll pops." Well, maybe we wouldn't say that, but it was a hell...
This warning, a hoax , appeared around the Yard and in the Houses...
...responsible for this massive hoax? More likely than not, the print media...
...communitarian, saw Nixon's 1968 election as a sign that Americans--though shaken by events of the late '60s and the system's failure to cope with them--were not yet ready to admit that rugged individualism, which defined their politics and judgments of themselves, was a "cruel hoax". Wills writes...
...Kook captain. " 'You've got a bomb on board,' they said. 'What do you want to do?' Our immediate response was, 'What's the bad news?' Then we thought, 'Here's our chance to find out if there's life after 12-meter racing.' " The bomb was a hoax, but questions of the future hang...