Word: pretends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like me, like you I suppose looking for a place, another deserted wood to stone himself off from them for awhile. You'll find out about them all right, you won't be able to help yourself, but when you do, just remember--just go about your business and pretend they was only passing through...
...with it. This is not reporting, but ridicule and insult. I object also to the story on the Republican Convention because of a continual tone, or undertone, of ridicule and criticism. I am a Republican and I favor the re-election of President Nixon, so I don't pretend to be impartial, but I am angered by the tone of the article...
Your reviewers maintain that we "charge excessive prices for mediocre food." We are not cheep. We do not pretend to be. You cannot serve prime beef, use real butter, make all your sauces from scratch, and use fresh fruit and fresh potatoes (even for the boiled ones) and have a particularly inexpensive menu. My statements can easily be checked. Come over and I'll being made fresh before each meal and the Prime stamp on the meat...
...unwilling to accept the defeat of occupational potency and its concommitant alienation from society. In this respect, her thesis about old age as the index of society is double-edged. For five hundred and seventy pages she bombards the reader with the horrors of old age. Never does she pretend that the resolution of old age is the amelioration of the life-style of the aged. She convinces the reader that old age is the most telling of all the stages of a human being's life. In old age, one's values and the society's values are most...
...THEIR mutual accommodation, Harvard and Gulf gave the lie to the notion that large American corporations can be semi-democratic institutions. In a system where power is proportional to the money invested, the management of most large corporations make an elaborate effort to pretend that they are controlled in some small way by the people who share in corporate power through ownership of stock: yet in huge corporations (like Gulf) it is all but impossible for even relatively large stockholders (like Harvard) to effect changes in company policy through the normal channels of corporate elections and proxy decisions. And when...