Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...number of people, and the number of houses continue to increase; and this will ever be the case, till the streams that swell this irresistible torrent of folly and extravagance shall either be exhausted or turned into other channels, by incidents and events which I do not pretend to foresee...
...floor of the White House. When I was away, Miss Thompson took over the job of mediating. One of my daughters-in-law used to worry a great deal about White House food, which she did not consider very good, and as I had never been able to pretend that I knew anything about food, I had to be very humble about her criticisms . . . I was very grateful when our daughter joined our household after her husband went overseas, because she could interpret what had then become Franklin's whims far better than I could...
...simple, sharply individualized performance out of Lauren Bacall. His gift for catching the realities of danger and violence is unique; Bogart's quietness and caution is a hundred times as true and exciting (and as brave, for that matter), as the conduct he is usually required to pretend. And Huston is a master of atmosphere: the whole picture reeks not only of immediate danger but of deep Florida's heat, remoteness and sleeping cruelty. Key Largo is so absorbing and skillful that you scarcely realize one remarkable achievement: it is shot mainly indoors and, save for one time...
...foot or by horsecart. The cart and horses (usually two) are a risk. At best they can be sold along the way for part of the original cost. At worst they will be confiscated by the military; when that happens, the owner had best be humble and pretend he is giving them up as a gift...
...savage expedient of trying to starve a city into submission has confessed its abject defeat in trying to win the people's allegiance. The battle has fallen from the level of the brain to the level of the belly; above the belly, the Russians no longer pretend to offer anything...