Word: pretending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist government is no more than a Kremlin puppet. The dust had taken a long time to settle, but apparently it had, and the State Department could now see clearly. Said Assistant Secretary of State Dean Rusk: "We do not recognize the authorities in Peiping for what they pretend to be. The Peiping regime may be a colonial Russian government ... It is not the government of China. It does not pass the first test. It is not Chinese...
When the North Atlantic Treaty was signed in 1949, he caught its impact better than many U.S. reporters. "Not many Americans know or pretend to know much about the big leap into the European dark," he wrote. "They feel in their bones . . . that it was inevitable . . . I have never during all the years here felt a greater admiration for America and the Americans. The clock strikes for them and they are ready...
...Pretend to Be a Seal. The first thing Father Buliard did in Coppermine was to learn Eskimo-an accomplishment, he remarks happily, that gave him a great advantage over his Anglican rivals. He also learned how to put together a reasonable facsimile of a snowhouse, how to catch a seal (wriggle up to it, crawfish-style, pretending to be a seal yourself), and how to alleviate snow blindness by a few searing drops of kerosene in the eyes. He accustomed himself to the Eskimo menu, even to such delicacies as owl meat, scorpionfish liver, frozen raw fish, warm blood, seal...
Nevertheless, Glueck contended, the pretend investigations have been well-conducted and, to a great extent, non-political in character. "The only circus quality of the probe has been added by the nature of the educating medium of television," he added...
Still Going Up. Since then, Di Salle's main preoccupation has been to preside over a controlled thawing of the freeze, to iron out inequities and build an overall system of controls that will keep prices from soaring through the roof. He does not pretend that any order he issues now can stop prices from rising still higher. They will climb at least another 5% o 6, Di Salle admits...