Word: spuriousness
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Counseling draft registrants to file "spurious material" at draft boards...
...vigorous campaign that President Pusey fought to save this University from the McCarthy witchhunts; but we then recall how Pusey returned to Harvard, intent on proving that the campus could police itself to the satisfaction of its outside critics-thus making the supposed "freedom" for which he fought a spurious one. And, most recently, we have been forced to watch as the standard of "academic freedom" has been raised aloft as sufficient reason to excuse the University, as a body, from expressing its opposition to the war in Indochina, while simultaneously promising Henry Kissinger, one of the chief architects...
...article makes it a crime, punishable by seven years' imprisonment, for a writer deliberately to "disseminate slander" about the Soviet system in Russia or abroad. In order to build a case that could appear plausible in court, the KGB has planted Solzhenitsyn's forbidden manuscripts, together with spurious "authorizations," on unsuspecting Western publishers. Many Sovietologists believe that the key figure in this elaborate plot is one Pavel Licko, a sometime Czechoslovak journalist but also a longtime Soviet intelligence officer...
...undeveloped, and it fosters no affinity between the playgoer and the players. Noah's three sons are, respectively, a lout (Shem), a lecher (Ham) and a moral prig (Japheth). Noah straightens out their biblically unrecorded sexual hang-ups like a pre-lst century marriage counselor and spars in spurious stage-generation-gap fashion with his youngest son, who is skeptical about the Divine Establishment...
...Spurious Spiro, the smirking, spleenful spokesman of the sated, smug, self-satisfied society...