Word: pretended
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...protected, kept behind the wall. Movie stars had a big backstage area that they used to keep to themselves, that's been eroded. It makes the job that much more difficult...yet the ultimate job remains the same, in the end you have to go into a room and pretend to be somebody else with a camera in your face, and that hasn't changed...
...Even if I find something, I won't say anything. All these men are listening out for the discovery of a stone," says Patrice as he sees a handful of rebels walking towards the riverside mine. "If you find something you have to just remain calm and pretend nothing has happened," he adds...
Privileged Harvard students have long been able to login to JSTOR free of charge and usually in a semi-comatose state. Now, however, anyone with Internet access can pretend to be an Extension School student and read up on a professor’s lifelong passion for amoebas—and for free. (Disclaimer: this is under the assumption that they’d want to, of course...
...students? If you are as intellectually motivated as you should be, instead of shelling out seven dollars for a poorly conceived dhall party, you can now spend your weekend nights increasing your mental repertoire... And for free! (Don’t try to pretend this doesn’t excite you). Science article aficionado John S. Liu ’11, for one, agrees: “Friday, Saturday night, I can’t go to the library, but the Internet’s always on!” Word...
...hard to stomach. Opposition pols have been keen to make hay. "We will not back nationalization," Tory Shadow Chancellor George Osborne said. "We will not help Gordon Brown take this country back to the 1970s." While that's unlikely to happen - it's been years since Labour could pretend to be a Socialist party - Brown's government will be hoping the same decade offers a useful precedent. When Rolls-Royce was on the brink of collapse in 1971, Osborne's own Conservative party nationalized the aerospace company, arguing it was crucial for the country's science and industry base. "[Rolls...