Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...written from Havre and dated Sept. 19, 1917: "... I have opportunities to talk with a great many military men, Belgian, English, French and they all unite on this: if America can send over preponderating squadrons of aircraft, the scales of battle will be quickly turned. ... I do not pretend to know anything about the art or science of war, if it is either, but I think I know something about the German psychology and the fact that they themselves lay such stress on air raids, the fact that they think thereby to terrorize and frighten, is indubitable proof that nothing...
Radio's eyebrows were raised last week: the boom in sustaining programs, the wallflowers of the industry, kept right on booming. For the 21st time this year a sponsor gave the nod to a sustainer: from now on Let's Pretend, a CBS sustainer for 13 years, will pretend for Cream of Wheat...
Said the Manchester Guardian: "It rather looks as if the Indian Government had decided that the best thing to do is to pretend that Gandhi and Congress do not exist and to hope that they will be quietly forgotten...
...citizens of Rome: You have already been warned that military objectives in the vicinity of Rome are liable to be bombed by the Allied air force. When this occurs the Fascist Government . . . will pretend that we are trying to destroy those cultural monuments which are the glory not only of Rome but the civilized world. It is possible, moreover . . . that the Fascist Government or their German associates will themselves arrange that bombs will be dropped on the center of Rome or even on Vatican City...
...also to draw the line between good & evil. Stewart's examples of this trend: the rise of the trail-blazing newspaper columnists, who "helped the reader get his own bearings"; the birth of PM, dedicated to opinionated reporting. And even the Times, Stewart points out, "would not now pretend to be neutral about the Nazis...