Word: pretends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cornell, it was undefeated going into last Saturday's contest with the Crimson. And if anyone should ask, pretend that the Big Red still is. Whatever you do, don't let on that Harvard knocked Cornell from the ranks of the undefeated and also dropped the team from the national rankings where it once held a spot...
...solve the power shortage." My husband George doesn't know this yet, and I bet he won't take to your interesting suggestion that one of the advantages of anal intercourse between a man and a woman is that the male partner can close his eyes and pretend that he's in bed with another...
...Islanders do their best to pretend the "summer ginks" do not exist, or that they are at least only peripheral to real Vineyard life--the delicate small town give-and-take at which people who live on an island are expert. Of course the Islanders couldn't live without off-Island money, and the island's main business is construction of homes for off-Islanders. But this only deepens the resentment, and the determination to glory in insularity...
Bishop reasons that Mclntire and Roosevelt understood each other so well after eleven years together that they had instinctively entered into a conspiracy of silence. The evidence shows that F.D.R. suspected that he was seriously ill but wanted to pretend that everything was all right in hopes of remaining in office until World War II was won. As for Mclntire, he had no desire to destroy the illusions-and perhaps the political future-of the most powerful man in the world...
...would run. Now I probably will run." TerHorst, who reported the Nixon years for the Detroit News, was not quite ready for the new order himself. "Is it all right to put that out?" he asked. "I don't see why not," said Ford. "Why should we pretend?" They may pretend in Texas and California, but out in Chicago and Cleveland they hardly ever go through the reluctant-debutante routine that Americans have witnessed in the White House for a decade...