Word: pretending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn had labored tirelessly, skillfully and successfully to avoid a ruinous party blowup over civil rights. They had even contrived to put a Democratic stamp of sorts on civil rights legislation. Now Faubus had undone them-and Democratic politicians, in their acute embarrassment, could only pretend that Faubus did not exist. Lyndon Johnson became unavailable for comment. Grunted old Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives longer than any other man in history: "I'm not making any comment about segregation at all, my friend, one way or another...
King was no preacher, nor did he pretend to any particular piety-at least not until he fell in love with Henrietta Chamberlain, the Presbyterian minister's daughter he finally married. He was not exactly a fugitive from justice, but at eleven he had run away from New York City where his Irish immigrant parents had apprenticed him to a jeweler. He was not an s.o.b.-at least in his biographer's view-but he could cajole the widow and children of a Mexican landowner out of 15,500 acres of grasslands for $300, resell a half interest...
Ruiz Cortines did not pretend that the picture was uniformly bright. From September 1956 to June 1957 the country piled up an unfavorable trade balance of $55.8 million, although, said the President, 82% of it was the result of temporary expenditures (spare machine parts, industrial equipment) necessary for economic expansion. Even excluding Indian communities, 300,000 children have no schools and one out of every two Mexicans is still illiterate. The population of the Federal District, now 4.5 million, will probably hit 7,000,000 by 1966, causing serious food, water and school shortages. And because of drought and population...
...books combined (140,000) lag well behind that current dreary splash in a small-town sex sump, Peyton Place (250,000 copies). The interior decorators of U.S. letters-the little-magazine critics whose favorite furniture is the pigeonhole-find that Cozzens fits no recent fictional compartments, and usually pretend that he does not exist. This is particularly puzzling because no U.S. writer has rooted his novels more solidly in the American scene than Cozzens, or has more painstakingly portrayed the complex professional strongholds of a complex country-medicine, the clergy, the law, the military...
...getting "unsolicited gifts" of American vaccine for their children. More U.S. vaccine is being smuggled in, sold on the black market. The Sunday Express asked angrily: "Why did the Ministry refuse to import the Salk vaccine offered by America [4,000,000 cc., offered last winter]? How can they pretend it is unsafe, yet at the same time allow the privileged few to accept presents of the vaccine from American friends...