Word: pretended
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...been accomplished in Germany, that here is a Germany that is certainly the most democratic regime the German people have ever known. You know, you could see where a country that had done what they did might have bulldozed out of existence those camps and said, 'Let's pretend it never happened, and let's never mention it again.' No, they have preserved those camps with enlarged pictures to show all the horrors for people to come and visit. They themselves have said we will preserve the memory of this so it never happens again. And now, today, you have...
LOOKING for macho men drugs violence and cliched women? Honor the Code of Silence. But only if you must. If you don't have 102 minutes to spare, an episode of "Magnum P.I." Will suffice just pretend that Tom Selleck is Chuck Norris...
...marked by honors and accolades. At the University of Pennsylvania, John received a four-year Benjamin Franklin scholarship. Years later Wideman admits the irony in his attempt to be self-made man: "I wanted to be Horatio Alger, there seemed to be no limits ... being Black, you had to pretend. I knew I wasn't Horatio Alger and the world wasn't my oyster...
White majority unawareness cannot be allowed to continue. We cannot pretend these problems will go away by themselves. The whole community needs to recognize and deal with them. The acts of a few groups will not be enough. In this day and age, injustices to minorities should not exist. If all groups could recognize and appreciate the differences that exist between the races, then the whole situation could be turned into something positive. I realize this is a big step, but it is not unreasonable. The advances made in the past are not enough. Someday I hope the term "minority...
Gromyko asked Shultz to pretend that he was on top of a tower in the Kremlin so that he could see, "objectively," how threatening Star Wars looked from that perspective. Reagan has lamented the unofficial American nickname of S.D.I., insisting that its aims are entirely peaceful, while Soviet spokesmen relish using the literal Russian translation of Star Wars, partly because the phrase includes the word war. Since his meeting with Shultz, Gromyko has continued to heap contempt on the defensive rationale for Star Wars. Mixing his metaphors a bit, he has said that if the U.S. persists with the program...