Word: pretending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Judged by the agenda, Berlin had accomplished little. But there was more to Berlin than agenda. The Western ministers had found common ground, and proved it more solid than they knew. They left an opponent stripped of pretense. Russia could no longer pretend that it had any intention of uniting Germany or evacuating Austria...
...They can . . . give away the offshore oil, give away Hell's Canyon dam and botch up the St. Lawrence Seaway and pretend like they'd done something great." For the matter of Communists in Government, the soft spot in the Democratic hide this election year, Harry Truman threw his fiercest strokes. By giving the impression that the list of 2,200 discharged security risks included a lot of Communists, Truman charged, "they undertook to perpetrate one of the biggest hoaxes ever attempted in American history . . . This is the Republican Administration I am talking about-not irresponsible members...
...maintaining order; the doctor, who thinks love is the source of everything but hates an entire family because the father seduced one of his cousins, then told the girl's accusing parents that "a person sitting on an ant-heap is going a bit far when they pretend to know which particular ant has bitten them"; the mayor, an "upholder of correct living," who is too honest to send an innocent man to the guillotine "without some preliminary qualms of conscience"; the honest masses, who virtually cheer a vile crime because they think the criminal is one of them...
...house: spicy paella) and manufactures jewelry as a sideline. He is also working on a monumental history of the gypsies. De Diego has been an enthusiastic U.S. citizen since 1941. Said he last week as he flew off to Birmingham to collect his $2,000: "In Europe, they only pretend to know what is good. In America, they know...
...must not even pretend To be one of the people. I must stand...