Word: pretends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretend to seek price stability while quietly encouraging wage increases is, to say the least, not being frank...
...microphone the chairman was preparing the ovation for Senator Pepper's radio address. "Clap fast," he ordered, "not slow. Scream & whistle. Pretend I'm Orson Welles." Perfunctorily and apathetically, the 300 delegates in the ornate Boulevard Room of Chicago's Hotel Continental responded. "Pretend I'm Joan Crawford," cried the chairman. The applause was better, but still not good enough. "Pretend I'm Henry Wallace." The delegates to the "Conference of Progressives" tore the roof...
Credit cannot be taken from the summer investigation for the emergence of that issue and its acceptance by the Council; for despite repeated claims of having planned its own investigation as far back as last spring, the Council did not pretend to any action before the incentive added by the events of the last three months. In any case, it is the resulting unanimity of opinion which is important...
...twelve years). He said he had written nothing since 1943. "I hope to resume writing as soon as I can," said he, "but the war has thrown me completely off base.... I have to get back to a sense of writing being worthwhile. ... I'd have to pretend...
...laymen who have tagged along as best they might in the wake of the first year's argument and information, the picture can offer little that is factually new; nor does it pretend to answer still unanswerable questions of control. What makes it impressive, today and as a historical record, is its terse, clear, visual summary, its image, even in re-enactment of the men who brought the Age to birth...