Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer to PM's opponents who dislike the paper's liberal bias, Robertson points out, "it doesn't pretend to be impartial," "At least when you read a story in PM," he concludes, "you know that the author believes...
...Russia and the Poles. "It would be an affectation to pretend that the attitude of the British Government, and I believe of the United States Government, toward Poland is identical with that of the Soviet Union...
Music in Manhattan (RKO-Radio) offers mild pleasure despite the barrenness of its musicomic clichés. Some of them: Ace Philip Terry finds aspiring Actress Anne Shirley asleep in his hotel bed; housing-shortage forces them to pretend they are married; Miss Shirley soars to success as a Broadway musicomedienne, whisks through five production numbers, decides she loves her ersatz husband for keeps...
...Department last week turned the heat on the avalanche of contract cancellation work that U.S. industry faces at war's end. The furnace to be used for this job was called, in governmental gobbledygook. Predetermination of Contract Cancellation. That jawbreaker meant something quite simple: war contractors can now pretend that their contracts have actually been canceled. Thus they can clear out of the way much of the time-eating labor that would hold up a swift shift to making peace goods...
...quislings have to be killed. If our refugee Government in England returns to control very quickly, I think most of the quislings will be put to trial before they are killed. Otherwise, I'm afraid the people will kill them. There are some, probably not many, who only pretend to be quislings and are really patriots. I think they are likely to be executed, too, because many quislings will say they were really patriots and nobody will believe them...