Word: spuriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whose numbers were estimated between 30 and 50, had gathered to support one of their number, Paul Wagler '70, for co-chairman, but some of them punctuated the meeting with laughter, hissing and spurious nominations. SDS officers said a total of approximately 200 persons attended the meeting...
...wrenching, erosive of both traditions and old values. Its inheritors have grown up with rapid change, are better prepared to accommodate it than any in history, indeed embrace change as a virtue in itself. With his skeptical yet humanistic outlook, his disdain for fanaticism and his scorn for the spurious, the Man of the Year suggests that he will infuse the future with a new sense of morality, a transcendent and contemporary ethic that could infinitely enrich the "empty society." If he succeeds (and he is prepared to) the Man of the Year will be a man indeed - and have...
...these reasons we consider any attempts to apologize on our behalf to be spurious. We do not apologize. BOB WOOD '66-67 JOE PERSKY 1G ROGER ROSENBLATT...
Humble Search. Sato's troubles began in August, when a member of the Diet's audit committee was arrested for accepting nearly $700,000 from businessmen in return for silence on spurious government contracts. Then the Socialists turned on Transportation Minister Seijuro Arafune, 59, who had not only taken two businessmen with him on a recent government-financed trip to South Korea but also ordered the Japan National Railways to make his home town an express stop. After making his apologies, Arafune resigned...
...ethical rationalizations for breaching privacy are many, and they range from the plausible to the spurious. The FBI has been known to bend wiretapping rules in the interests of fighting crime. The New England Telephone Co. recently admitted to monitoring calls "to determine the quality of customer service." Senator Thomas Dodd's aide blandly defends the lifting of his employer's documents on the grounds that he wanted to unmask wrongdoing...