Word: inventive
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...February, Moss slipped an interesting item into the club newsletter: while Freelandia was nonprofit, it said, a Moss-controlled company called Transmar was not. In fact, Transmar was leasing Freelandia the DC-8 as well as providing management services for a fee. More disgruntled employees complained of having to invent daily alibis for club members who demanded refunds for canceled flights. Aggrieved members could be repaid only when cash came in from sales of tickets for future flights, and the amounts owed piled higher and higher. Though 45 coast-to-coast flights were made, only six flights to Honolulu were...
...press did not invent these charges or inflate them out of proportion. The offenses already proved represent nothing less than an attempt to subvert the U.S. electoral system and then to hide the extent of that subversion. The argument, still widely heard, that all this was no more than dirty-politics-as-usual simply cannot be sustained by any halfway dispassionate student of the Watergate affair. Many of the offenders were public officials, men responsible for upholding the law in a law-and-order Administration. What the press did during the initial phase of Watergate, in addition to giving snapshots...
Birth of a World. If there is one word for the qualities of Miró's art, it is liberty, the freedom to invent, to associate image and shape at will, to sit easily in one's fantasies...
Many of those terms will soon be outdated, of course, if they are not already. The very existence of the pamphlet threatens them. If every volunteer understands what convicts are saying, the inmate neologist will simply invent new jargon to remain different from the straights. For some prisoners, that's a number one Jones they do not want to kick...
Daily wives grow more unkind and pink, and I must do with what was done when glutton, be content with television--plastic tit--count calories while they invent a better kind of missile...