Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This Single Purpose." From his vast knowledge of the world today, Churchill the historian selected his facts with an eye singly on victory-"this single and dominant purpose." He did not pretend to tell all the facts; to have done so would have helped the enemy. Instead he chose his words with skill, with British good humor, with the air of an artist conscious of his own performance. Aware that both friend & foe were listening, he said...
Certainly the brilliant specialists are good to have around, but let's not pretend that they represent the people, except some of the better educated, more "advanced" people of the Eastern seaboard and a few lonely aliens scattered throughout the country...
Confessional. Maugham disarmingly calls attention to the fact that he is making his first attempt to write a novel about Americans: "I don't think one can ever really know any but one's own countrymen. ... I do not pretend that [the characters] are American as Americans see themselves; they are American seen through an English...
...Well, Curlyhead-you're a man now, bearing your bright new shield and spear. I hated to see you go out of my house and close the door behind you; but I think I would not have halted you if I could. I salute you, sir. I cannot pretend that I am not sad; but I am proud, too. So long...
...well as home politics. Two weeks ago the Yorkshire Post, owned by Anthony Eden's family, asked Americans to reelect Mr. Roosevelt. Last week the Church of England Newspaper (which, despite its name, speaks only for a Low Church faction) plunked for Term IV: "To pretend that the [U.S.] election this year is the concern only of the American people is just stupid. . . . [It] is fraught with incalculable significance for all mankind...