Word: pretends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that "mislead thoroughly" to doing a "disservice to the fighting Army." Voorhees charged that most correspondents were "extreme" pessimists who sowed "doubt and fear among Americans as to the skill and honesty of Army leaders." They seemed, he says, "indifferent to the consequences of their dispatches. They appeared to pretend they operated in a vacuum, above criticism, shorn of responsibility, answerable to no one or nothing save the signers of their paychecks." Some correspondents broke, or evaded, censorship, says Voorhees, and deliberately misinterpreted communiques...
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...Women comrades must turn an indifferent cheek and pretend not to have heard Americans who speak to them. In dance halls, Communist girls "must never reserve a dance for an American; they should pretend to have been already asked by someone else. Male comrades must be ready to back them up in this...
...cannot possess and Nicolas, moving from his false idolatry of Gilles to a love of God, are remarkably impressive figures, gargoyles of suffering and striving. In telling their story, Novelist Mauriac shows himself still deeply preoccupied with the fevers of the human blood; at 66, he does not pretend to a resignation he apparently cannot feel...
...Pretend (Sat. 11:05 a.m., CBS). Twenty-third annual presentation of Cm-derella...