Word: unreality
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...independence status, after opposing that additional plebiscite for seven years, I have changed my mind as to the fact that statehood is economically a complete reality for Puerto Rico. My acceptance of an additional plebiscite now is based on the following fact: the constant debate on status, which is unreal to most Puerto Ricans but which may seem real to persons outside of Puerto Rico, is approaching a point where it is beginning to do harm to our economic development program. The debate is spurious and it should be ended. Therefore, I have stated that I would support a plebiscite...
...talk at the summit, but - thanks largely to Khrushchev's retreat from his original "either or" ultimatum - were in no mood to yield easily. No longer so fearful that a real ultimatum showdown with Russia was at hand, they felt less need to make a parade of unreal unanimity...
...eccentric, sent to amuse and thrill them with his daring antics. When, one evening, Marko appears at a reception and a rough voice bellows from the audience, "What about Varga, Lener, Goldfink?", everyone rocks with laughter at what seems an inexplicable joke. But as the months pass and the unreal festival approaches, the names of the mysterious trio keep echoing through London. Finally, a bomb of accusation bursts, in the form of the question: Did Marko make his first millions by selling his three compatriots to the Gestapo...
They all sing La Vie En Rose, and they all sing of an unreal Paris, but their styles are as different as a hangover at the Ritz is from a morning-after brandy in St. Germain des Prés. Blonde Vicky Autier, one of the three French singers who seem to have taken over Manhattan night life, appears at the St. Regis Maisonette in a $1,000 spangled black velvet gown, and she sings the song with gay sophistication. Blonder Lilo bounces about the Plaza's Persian Room in brief white tights, and sings La Vie with brassy...
...East German Communist radio said the Tass declaration was an answer to "the totally unreal suggestions of a tank breakthrough to Berlin and creation of a corridor carved out from part of the (East) German Democratic Republic...