Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, Harvard men sometimes pretend that they attend Wellesley. In 1939, a Harvard student dressed up as a girl and entered Wellesley's annual hoop rolling contest. In the race, members of the Wellesley senior class determine which one will marry first by rolling old-fashioned wooden hoops. The Harvard...
Even though we now can use the Fly Club garden, let's pretend that we can't Tomorrow, go stand outside the gates to the Mt. Auburn St. green and look in longingly. When members of the Fly are nearby, say things like "Gosh, I really wish I could use that exclusive field. It's just too bad I don't meet their stringent social qualifications...
...different stance. The agency had been wrong, Truly candidly conceded, on that fateful day. Before another mission blasts off, he vowed, NASA would reshape not just the shuttle's faulty booster rockets but also the process for deciding when to launch. Declared the admiral: "To defend the indefensible and pretend we didn't lose the Challenger and crew would be ludicrous...
...Marcos and Michelle Duvalier could meet by the pool for a "Lady Macbeth." The Big Boys could swagger around and try to seduce one another's wives. Steam baths, massages, the camaraderie of the locker room. They could shoot pigeons and get drunk, and now and then they could pretend to have one of their flunkies taken out and shot. Or better yet, the victim could just vanish, without explanation, without a trace. The good old days...
Mexico's current crisis could benefit all the debtors by finally changing their relationship with Western banks. Previously, the financial institutions kept giving the debtors tide-over loans, which had barely enabled borrowers to meet their payments on old debts. The strategy allowed bankers to pretend on , their books that the loans were solid ones, but it led to endlessly increasing debts for the borrowers. If banks hope to collect on those loans someday, they may have to accept the idea of giving the borrowers a break on interest rates, even though it will eat into their profit margins...