Word: pretends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Japanese salesman," says a Chinese businessman in Taiwan. "If they don't finish talking business in the daytime, then they talk business at night." A Malaysian businessman notes bitterly: "Whenever we tell the Japanese that their prices are not right, they suddenly develop lapses in English and pretend not to understand...
...Closet queens: This phrase is becoming analogous to "Uncle Tom." To pretend to be straight sexually, or to pretend to be straight socially, is probably the most harmful pattern of behavior in the ghetto. The married guy who makes it on the side secretly; the guy who will go to bed once but who won't develop any gay relationships; the pretender at work or school who changes the gender of the friend he's talking about; the guy who'll suck cock in the bushes...
...same age. or people who don't fit the plastic stereotypes of a good body. At that point, objectification eclipses people, and expresses self-hatred: "I hate gay people, and I don't like myself, but if a stud (or chicken) wants to make it with me, I can pretend I'm someone other than...
History Distorted. O'Brien, of course, is much too sly to pretend that he is recording straight history, even though he was a U.N. official in Katanga province in 1961 during its secessionist struggle with the Republic of the Congo. In one of the most disingenuous prefaces ever tacked onto a play, O'Brien announces: "My Hammarskjold and my Lumumba are not to be thought of as the 'real' characters of that name, but as personages shaped by the imitation of a real action associated with their names." What O'Brien is proclaiming here...
...John T. Tate, chairman of the Mathematics Department, said last night he was surprised by the Faculty's action. "I was aware from conversations with various people that some people didn't want Offner to get his degree, and I wouldn't pretend to understand how people decided how to vote. But according to the rules, Offner had earned his degree, and I certainly hoped that Dean May's motion would be defeated," Tate said...