Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought the government could reduce $30 billion of its expenditures by some 6% without injuring its services. "Is there not at least this amount of fat and excess in the government as a whole?" he asked. "Can anyone really deny this? What we know as men, we cannot pretend ignorance of as Senators...
...village elections. Hot Rod would run against his father; another young fellow would oppose his father-in-law for a seat on the village board. They rounded up 48 votes, figured that they thus controlled better than half of the votes usually cast. The trick was to pretend that their campaign was all a gag, so that the oldsters wouldn't get stirred...
...issue, as Vandenberg put it, was not civil rights. The Republicans indeed clasped these rights to their bosoms many years ago. Vandenberg disagreed with Barkley on principle; he just felt that the Parliamentary rule in question did not apply to debate on a motion to introduce a measure. To pretend that it did, Vandenberg said, would be tainting the worthy end of civil rights by using unwholesome means...
Great Blizzard. The cold in the west was not the bright, dry cold that westerners pretend to enjoy so much. It snowed & snowed & snowed. Bitter cold and roaring wind turned the snowstorms into blizzards. The great blizzard of early January was the worst that ever hit the high-plains states. In South Dakota the Black Hills region got 50 inches of snow; Deadwood got 77 inches. Total snowfall for January in western Nebraska averaged 70 inches...
...school in Portillo, Chile, hopes eventually to have a school of his own in the U.S. But he doesn't expect to convert the whole Western Hemisphere to the French method; his partisans claim more for his technique than he does himself. Says he dryly: "I do not pretend to have invented skiing...