Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they had power. Churchill was vague: "We would give you promptly and in good time the decisions which are necessary. . . ." He promised to "attack restrictive practices of all kinds." What the British wanted to know was how he planned to do that. Even his best wishers could not pretend that Churchill had offered anything but highly generalized thunder...
...last dress. She advertises for a husband and gives the impression that she is an heiress. The villain, a wealthy Chinese, reads the ad while in a barber's chair. Fearing his own wife's reactions if he answers it, he persuades the handsome barber to pretend that he is the tycoon, marry the girl, split the profits later...
...pretend to have read a book, when in reality I had read only a review...
...Pretend?" All mortal sins must be confessed, but confession of minor offenses (like wife-nagging) is optional. Father Wilson says that there is no use worrying about long forgotten sins: "If [the Lord] does not recall the sin to your mind, He has no one to blame but Himself...
...pretend to be an artist or a judge of art, but I am of the opinion that so-called modern art is merely the vaporings of half-baked, lazy people. An artistic production is one which shows infinite ability for taking pains and if any of these so-called modern paintings show any such infinite ability, I am very much mistaken...