Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more difficult, however, to pretend it was baseball season on the field. Players slipped and fell in the slop; frozen fingers committed eleven errors in the first three games. The vagaries of nature were compounded by the fact that for television reasons, five of the Series' seven games did not begin until 8:30 p.m., and a sixth was scheduled for late Sunday afternoon to avoid a ratings clash with pro football...
...seems a long way from Auschwitz to the speaker's rostrum at the General Assembly. Before Castro could equate the Jews with their murderers of a generation before, the moral force of those murders had to be laid to rest. The easiest method was to pretend the Holocaust did not happen. Many have done this. One British historian alleges that the entire event was a fiction. But of far more impact have been attempts to destroy the cachet of uniqueness, the special horror that the U.N. documents accorded to this newly named crime. The 1976 U.N. resolution declaring Zionism...
...others whose angle of vision prevented them from grasping the full drama of the Secretary of Defense immolating himself in front of the Pope took Laird's efforts at fire extinguishing as applause, into which they joined. Only wisdom accumulated over two millenniums enabled the Vatican officials to pretend that nothing unusual was going...
Local chauvinism habitually thrives on the disparagement of rival places or areas. Thus Minneapolis enjoys writing off St. Paul as though it were a mill village, and Dallas takes malicious glee in depicting Fort Worth as the sticks. South Dakotans often pretend to believe that North Dakotans are an alien race, and northern Californians regard the state's southerly part as a land of incurable kooks. Chronic twitting, in fact, may be taken as a sure sign that provincial pride is robust...
...named Barbara Claman had put out a call for street kids. Manz, tough and wiry, an alley cat, swaggered into Claman's office and bummed a cigarette; if nothing else came of the interview, she would be one smoke to the good. She remembers that Claman "told me to pretend that I got busted for pickpocketing and that I didn't do it and I was telling the cop about it. So I just let loose with some four-letter words, and I think that...