Word: pretending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...street, near Filene's, neon Christmas lights blink on and off, radios, record players, jukeboxes sound seasonal music--from "Santa Baby" and "The Yuletide Olde Lang Syne," to "White Christmas" to "Silent Night." Nearby, on the Common, some elm trees pretend they are pine. They have been used to offset a large, carousel-like decoration which projects a variety of colors each night...
...position. "I've developed a little play of my own," he says. "It's a kind of fake shot-we call them 'deeks' for decoys. Sometimes the goalie gives you an opening deliberately and then breaks your heart by blocking the shot. I pretend I'm taking the opening by flicking my stick over the top of the puck. The goalie moves, and then I either flick it between his legs or into the other side...
...early Shirley Temple manner is better than ever. But despite Mrs. Miller, the film is not really good low humor. It is merely good-humored. Co-Star Yves Montand, the French music hall singer, is urbane and masculine, but he seems constrained by a part that requires him to pretend he is not an expert song-and-dance man. He plays a billionaire who, to be near Actress Monroe, decides to take the part of himself in a satirical off-Broadway revue and keeps his identity secret so that Marilyn may love him for his pilgrim soul, rather than...
Even Eyskens himself could not pretend that Belgium was not in sad straits, could not help but share in the general fury that Belgium had been "deserted" in the Security Council by its NATO allies, Britain and the U.S. Huffily echoing his party's bitter charge that Washington and London "refuse our soldiers the right to defend the lives and security of our compatriots," Eyskens said Belgium would have to consider reducing its military contributions to NATO...
...polemics, the practical facts of life dictate that Peking and Moscow will stick together, and that Moscow will generally get its way. The Chinese are dependent on the Soviet Union for their atomic protection, and it is Russia that must provide the heavy machinery without which China cannot pretend to be a great power. Since 1950, the Russians have delivered to China an estimated $4 billion in credits, including 291 industrial projects. They have given China a small experimental nuclear reactor and a cyclotron-but no atomic weapons. The Russians provide all China's jet aircraft, much...