Word: pretending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First off, he decided that the $1.7 billion pork-barrel rivers and harbors bill did not measure up to being reasonable, even though Congress had tried to pretend that it was an important antirecession remedy. Among the 154 projects in the barrelful, 28 costing $350 million looked like fat bacon. Example: one section of the bill laid out $269,000 to be spent on the lower Potomac River near Hull Creek, Va. to build a harbor for 41 small boats and 42 skiffs. Army engineers tagged the job uneconomical; the Virginia state government, by failing to promise matching funds...
...gendarmes flown into Paris from Algeria, Germany and the provinces. To a stonily unresponsive Assembly, Premier Gaillard declared: "It is said that the republican regime has been shaken to its foundation. This is not true. The Republic is much more firmly rooted in the hearts of Frenchmen than many pretend to believe. The only danger which threatens the Republic is the disunity of the republicans themselves and particularly of the republican majority of this Assembly which should permit the government to face up to the realities confronting...
...never discuss matters affecting members of my family with total strangers," he erupted. "You sent some hired hack-of yours to see me this morning to discuss with me the topics you wished to discuss-you pretend it's all unrehearsed. This was not one of those he raised. I do not intend to discuss it with you. You are a total stranger to me and I suppose the few hundred people looking in at this small television station, which has not yet managed to get itself network, that they are most of them strangers...
...advertiser's theory is that news of the recession stirs up even more caution and uncertainty in consumers. But newspapers that tailor the news to this formula help neither the economy nor themselves. Says Tennessean Editor Coleman A. Harwell: "How can we pretend there's no unemployment when people are talking about it? If we pretend, we look stupid...
...small death." On the other hand, the article added, "millions of women feel nothing at all." and the "timing of the climaxes can take five years to perfect." For the apprentice mate who cannot muster even a sigh. counseled Sexpert Hilliard, "the worthiest duplicity on earth" is to pretend to a man that "he can cause a flowering within her." By way of re-enlisting readers who might have grown discouraged by this sort of thing, the new Digest piece (condensed from McCall's) quotes the "official" line: "The wife should have an orgasm. If this does not happen...