Word: papering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until now, despite limited success, the freedom fighters had been regarded by racist governments as paper tigers well within the bounds of containment by their security froces. Just as no one paid much attention to the OAU proclamations on other matters, no one considered the beefing up of guerrilla warfare as much of a threat--yet. But it appears that their scorn was slightly premature. In fact Malawi, not one of the racist target states but an Independent black nation, appears to have been one of the first goals of an increasingly organized movement; the success of other OAU pronouncements...
Malawi Encounters the Paper Tiger...
Stanley Hoffmann stared down at his lap, then fingered a nob on his desk drawer. A few minutes later he groped for a paper clip and stuck it between his teeth. Hoffmann was being accommodating, talking about himself, but he wasn't used to it, and he probably didn't enjoy...
Having expressed his complaint, Hoffmann settled down in his chair, stuck the paper clip back in his mouth, and his voice returned to a somewhat nervous, reflective timbre. His behavior changed so because I had asked a more serious question, and as before, he was having trouble talking about himself...
...apartment house in Arlington, Va. This time he hit pay dirt, and in nine months realized a $200,000 profit. As the Government grew and the housing demand picked up, Wolman's fortunes soared. Just 16 years after arriving in Washington, he was worth $35 million, on paper. His real estate holdings stretched from Philadelphia to Chicago, where the John Hancock Life Insurance Co. helped finance a Wolman scheme for a 100-story office-residential building...