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This push toward paralysis is a result of the long "phony war" against Iraq.

The cure for the phony war will be the real one.

Successful advocacy for children does not require creating a phony political war between generations.

Hitler "thinks there will be only a phony war in the West.

Do you really think there's a phony war going on up here?

He promised several hundred people "a real war, not a phony war against drugs."

In the West it would soon be dubbed the "phony war."

The phony war, so far as the Germans were concerned, was coming to an end with the approach of spring.

It was still a cold war at this stage, a phony war, nothing that could be truly won or lost.

The television season doesn't start until Sept. 17, but last week was a kind of phony war anticipating the competition to come.