Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eddie Gardner: I gotta be educated. Let's pretend you're my old teacher from Harvard...
...There were no major political questions in Europe which were not subject to discussion between us in some form or other. I am not going to pretend for a moment that we agreed on every point. ... In the spirit of good will which has now been established, we can reasonably hope to make progress...
...Fascism's cradle with almost complacent indifference. An old New York custom sent down a brief explosion of ticker tape and torn telephone-book pages from its sky scraper windows; on Mulberry Street the sad-eyed people of "Little Italy" over came their hurt long enough to pretend to celebrate for the benefit of news photographers. But otherwise, as in the rest of the U.S., the first sharp ripple of excitement, the first burst of good feeling soon faded and died on the surface of another war-as-usual...
Epilogue. The Italian press reported that the carabinieri, pressing the Badoglio dictatorship's drive against blackshirts, had now arrested the sisters Petacci. Commented the Swiss Neue Zürcher Zeitung: the deliberate blackening of Benito Mussolini's grey reputation is a rebuff to the Nazis, who still pretend that the ex-Duce is a great man; it is also a shift in political attitude that "may point to coming events...
...prisoner ranks as a captain, gets the ?6 monthly allowed to a German army captain by the German Red Cross. He is guarded night & day and he is allowed to pretend that the guards are his personal servants. He gets up at 10 and goes to bed after midnight. He reads newspapers, books sent from Germany via the Red Cross, writes letters to his wife Klare, makes private notes, scribbles verse, draws architectural designs. The Daily Mail says the designs show considerable skill and delicacy. His only compulsory activity is daily exercise. He can take it inside the hospital grounds...