Word: hogwash
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...praise on the economy, he has none whatsoever for his diplomacy and military policy, for which he can assert not one triumph-unless one notches a "victory" over a few hundred over-matched Cubans in Grenada Atlantic Alliance firmly through the tribulations of Euromissile deployment, but this is hogwash. Any praise that is to be given ought go to our European allies, who were able to hold together, despite the wholly unreasonable approach to negotiations favoured by the United States...
...actions, contrary to his reassurances, have served merely to unsettle those hearts. Last May, after several Chinese officials had publicly declared that China would not station soldiers on Hong Kong soil, Deng suddenly summoned the Hong Kong press. After denouncing the claims of two of his associates as "hogwash," he instructed the astonished journalists, "You go and publish this bit of news. Troops will be stationed in Hong Kong. It is part of Chinese territory. Why shouldn't we station troops there?" Not long afterward, when three Chinese representatives of Hong Kong's executive and legislative councils visited...
...also happens to be hogwash. Based on the perception that ROTC's exclusion of gay men and lesbians has some actual military value, it ignores the contribution of thousands of "closeted" gay people throughout history. It also ignores the basic violations of human dignity involved. As long as institutions such as ROTC, and by association Harvard, deny complete access to gay people, the nation as a whole cannot be truly free...
Back home in England, Orwell read accounts of the events in Spain and realized that he was being fed hogwash: "I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as the heroes of imaginary victories." This phenomenon frightened him, he wrote, "because it often gives me the feeling that the very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world...
...Hampshire," and I guess the Harvard-Dartmouth game is our chance in all our "envy" to see a real school like Harvard. It is also supposed to give us an opportunity to have a "social event second only to the Winter Cornival on the Dartmouth social calendar," Hogwash!! If you've even been to Dartmouth, any weekend, you'll find that socially, we do just fine...