Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What any of this has to do with lectures is beyond me. I could start all over, but that would be a waste of paper so why don't you just ignore the first couple paragraphs and pretend the column starts with the next...
...year and a half, a statistician at HUD earning $13,000 a year, and four equally idle coworkers, drank coffee, pondered crossword puzzles and listened to the radio. "Our supervisors were always telling us to look busy," she says. "But there's only so much you can pretend when you haven't got a damn thing...
...conveys the innocence and incompetence which plauge Saul very well, although at times he hammers in Saul's stupidity with overplayed grimaces and heavy-handed humor. Nevertheless, the scene where David reveals his ambition ranks as one of the best in the play. Saul incredulously asks, "How could you pretend for so long?", which David answers with contempt and superiority...
...highest form of truth in newspapers is the "blatant opinion" of the editorial page because it does not pretend to be an absolute truth, just a version of the truth, he said...
...Boston area and the entire nation. For too long students have been victims of Harvard's racist policies pertaining to Third World admissions. The ramifications of the Bakke case have done such irreparable damage to Third World recruitment and admissions that we can no longer shut our eyes and pretend it is not there...