Word: pretends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even if Netanyahu wanted to dance with the Palestinians, his campaign has put relations on a bad footing. He vowed he would never meet with Arafat, and his campaign ads sought blatantly to redemonize the P.L.O. leader. Then when he realized he could not even pretend to keep the peace process alive without the Palestinians' chosen interlocutor, he grudgingly conceded he might have to meet him after...
...Clinton: When she was six, Bill and I talked about how we could prepare her for the meanspiritedness and slings and arrows that come with political life. At dinners her father would pretend to be running against Bill Clinton, and he would say something like "Don't vote for Bill Clinton. He's a terrible person, and he's mean to people." Chelsea got big tears in her eyes. At a series of dinners, we would do this...
...would like to address a review in The Crimson from Monday, May 6, by Peter A. Hahn. I do not pretend to call myself an expert in the form of music we have come to call rap; but I do enjoy listening. And what I witnessed on Saturday last was not the type of "mediocre" and "pedestrian" performance as Mr. Hahn claims it was. It is possible that Mr. Hahn made these outrageous claims only to grab attention for himself as an aspiring writer. Well this was the wrong place to look. He would have discovered this...
What has changed, however, is that there is a new sense of urgency about the problem. "Ten years ago, people thought this was temporary," says Martha Minow, a professor of family law at Harvard Law School. "It is no longer possible to pretend it will go away...
...this trouble to discredit him? Why worry themselves about something they say is of little importance? Could it be that they want to make a name for themselves as being wise or they wish to be free of any responsibility to obey God? The quickest way is to pretend he doesn't exist. What they are saying is nothing new. Many hammers have beaten on the old anvil, but those hammers are gone; the anvil is still around. I am particularly concerned not that they will damage the anvil but that their listeners may naively mistake the hammerers' "foolishness...