Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hardest class of malingerers to detect are those who pretend to have nervous derangements such as headaches, neuralgic pains, vertigo, fits. Worst problem of all is distinguishing the malingerer from the psychopath. Hysterical vomiting, for example, has no more physical basis than self-induced vomiting, yet morally and medically it requires different treatment...
Morale is quite good-always seems to improve in proportion to the nearness of actual danger. U.S. soldiers stand up very well under almost constant bombings. It would be useless to pretend all are heroes. But after a few days most of them turn up okay. They take particular pride in one anti-aircraft unit. Last week it shot down five bombers. An American colonel commanding the Moresby anti-aircraft unit was so pleased he gave five pounds donation towards beer for the anti-aircraftsmen-when & if beer arrives...
...London the sober Economist admitted that "political considerations, not technical convenience [U.S. & British Lend-Lease materials] will decide how the Moslem world reacts to a British defeat. It is useless to pretend that the political omens are very favorable...
...with much greater stakes in other watchful foreign countries (particularly Venezuela), the settlement seemed like nothing so much as being sold down the river by their own Government. For, while $24,000,000 is almost three times as much as Expropriator Lázaro Cárdenas liked to pretend their properties were worth, it is only about one-eighth of what the companies themselves think they were worth, and it apparently puts no value on subsoil rights−the oil reserves under the ground to which the oil companies had title. This is the very principle the companies have...
...German radio was elaborately prepared to sabotage Sir Stafford Cripps's trip to India. CBS's Bob Trout reported to North America last week an "argument" about Cripps that began last month between two German stations that broadcast in English, pretend to be British. One, the "New British Broadcasting Station," accused the other, the "Workers Challenge Station," of stooging for Cripps. The "Workers' Challenge" boys made a show of defending Cripps-while subtly characterizing him as a revolutionist. Last week the German radio kept turning the screw with this latest twist on the Bolshevist Bogey theme...