Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Inspired by Oliver North's testimony on Capitol Hill last month, more teenagers than usual are showing up at Marine recruitment offices. The less venturesome can rush down to their neighborhood video arcade -- to play Contra. For 25 cents players can pretend to shoot their way through treacherous jungles without risking their lives or getting caught up in a covert operation. Since Contra's introduction in the spring, it has climbed to No. 6 on the chart compiled by Replay, a prominent video magazine, of the most popular arcade games...
Lord knows, when Harvard officials discuss the pre-professional stereotype of their students, they point to PBH with justifiable pride. So how can they now pretend that the student group is just another Cambridge neighbor having some equipment problems...
Such acts used to be swept under the run; everyone used to pretend everyone else was well-meaning. After all, when Jackie Robinson belted one racist opponent, it was only because he had twice ignored the player's taunts. "I had no cheeks left to turn," he said. Baseball players these day are more interested in sticking out their chins and putting up their dukes than in turning their cheeks...
...highest form of multilateral nonsense, however, is to pretend to fob off the responsibility on the U.N., as Senator Pell proposes. And Pell is not alone. Presidential Candidate Michael Dukakis spoke for much of the Democratic Party when he expressed opposition to American use of "armed forces in the gulf unless it does so in concert with other nations, preferably under the aegis of the U.N. Security Council...
...very confusing set of issues, and only the foolish, I think at this time, pretend to have all the answers," Spence said at the symposium for alumni returning for their reunions. "I think it's going to take us a long time to figure what kind of world we live in and where we stand...