Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cannot pretend to feel impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns...
...almost complete support throughout the country. It called for Federal subsidies to local or state governments for 500,000 units of public housing per year for the next four years. Only those with incomes less than $2100 a year would be eligible, a group which speculative builders cannot pretend to cater to, for rents would not have exceeded $32 per month...
...worth the dirt in Harlem's gutters. They sense that the whole thing is rotten, that it is a fake, that it is spurious, empty, a shadow of nothingness. And yet they are condemned to reach out for it, and to seem to desire it, and to pretend they like it, as if the whole thing were some kind of bitter cosmic conspiracy: as if they were thus being forced to work out, in their own lives, a clear representation of the misery which has corrupted the ontological roots of the white man's own existence...
...appear during the year in an undergraduate publication went to a story that ran in the Lampoon. The judges of the contest were the Curator of the Nicman Foundation, the editor of the Atlantic Monthly, and the editor of Harper's, and far be it from me to pretend to know their criteria. But one outstanding difference between Clement B. Wood's prizewinner and nearly every story the Advocate or Signature printed during the year was that in Wood's piece you could always tell who was talking, you could understand what they were saying, and when people weren...
...thing, New York "society" has never been able to shut its top drawer (as more settled towns have, or pretend to have); socialites, cafe socialites, climbers and hangers-on buzz across the city's night life like a queenless swarm. But the hard fact was that the debut was becoming an anachronism. In a less strident day, when children were seen and not heard, a debut was at least as significant as the unveiling of a civic monument. If it uncovered nothing the audience had not seen before, it was at least official and marked the removal...