Word: pretending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...becoming an important item on Portland tables. Now there were three times as many horse butchers, selling three times as much meat. In the Portland markets, horse sirloins are 35? a pound, while beef is $1.14; horse tenderloins 45?, compared to $1.95-$2.15 for beef. People who used to pretend that it was for the dog now came right out and said it was going on the table. In the face of high beef prices, the old grey mare, obviously, was more than she used...
...were anxious to avoid giving offense . . . [but] instead of frankly stating the real reason . . . the [government] endeavored to find an alternative explanation . . ." Amery added that the government had "seized upon the difference of opinion which existed between Seretse and Tshekedi and magnified it, puffed it up," until London "could pretend that it threatened the unity and good order of the tribe...
...Respectable" sales programs are often mere facades for many colleges that pretend they are "selling" the college when they are really buying the player. Princeton, however, and several other Ivy Leaguers seem to have made the program work so far without deliberately entering the professional circuit. Princeton seems intentionally to foster the reputation of being a place for the "all-around boy"--a reputation that automatically attracts a large number of student-athletes...
Today, Yale undergraduates still "play the game"-on the field & off-in an atmosphere of calm but unrelenting competition. From the moment a freshman begins to "heel" for the News, the Banner or the Lit, his life becomes a purposeful drive upward-but a drive he must pretend to ignore. "Intense, aren't you?" is the rebuke to overenthusiasm. "The thing to do," says one undergraduate, "is to drift energetically...
...Respectable" sales programs are often mere facades for many colleges that pretend they are "selling" the college when they are really buying the player. Princeton however, and several other Ivy Leaguers seem to have made the program work so far without deliberately entering the professional circuit. Princeton seems intentionally to foster the reputation of being a place for the "all-around boy"--a reputation that automatically attracts a large number of student-athletes...