Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...today we pretend we have broken through those racist, sexist viewpoints. There are amendments to the cherished Constitution--surely a contribution to Western civilization--which say that people shall not be discriminated against on the basis of race...
...President, she had no idea that George Bush would be facing a foreign policy crisis over Panama. Busy as he was, the President still went out of his way to ask, "How can I help make your job easier today?" Chimed in White House photographer David Valdez: "Just pretend she isn't here...
...emphasized everyone's societal obligation to correct the nation's past wrongs. "None of us is islands unto ourselves. We are part of a society," he said. "We cannot pretend that history never happened...
...much as I tried to pretend that the year wassimply a prolonged orientation session that setone apart from the other undergraduates, Mattwould always remind me how important the year wasand how much I should welcome the time to sort mylife out before it was time to move ahead...
What began for Gorbachev as a diplomatic mission aimed at normalizing relations with the People's Republic of China quickly evolved into a diplomatic mission of another sort: how to pretend your hosts are not trying to put down a revolution at the same time they're teaching you how to use chopsticks. This scenario, alas, was not covered in the slim white protocol books given to the Soviet entourage and the 80 or so reporters who accompanied Gorbachev from Moscow. What the book did cover often proved useless. Gorbachev did not "arrive by car" at Tiananmen Square nor, accompanied...