Word: sham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, for the first time in history, a Nepalese ventured officially into the Western Hemisphere. He was Commanding General Kaiser Sham Shere Jung Bahadur Rana, who came to Washington to present his credentials as Nepal's first Minister Plenipotentiary...
...English, but she dishes them out in purest pidgin. Sample: ''Dis program we make fo' any kind people who like sing, kani kani pila [music], talk-story. Baby can try, school chiren can try and even if you makule [old] still okay. No need be sham...
...flow of persons, ideas and goods throughout the whole of Germany; and a clear determination of the economic burdens the German people are to bear. Any German government called upon to administer a Germany divided as it is today by the policies of the occupying powers would be a sham...
...selected more for physical appearance than for any particular modieum of talent, George Sanders as Charles II displays the one lone semblance of real acting. DeMille-ish mob scenes, thousands of costly costumes, and the inevitable Technicolor lend a kind of facade of quality to something that is basically sham, but the too-thin vencer cannot completely hide a story that in essence is little but a collection of vicarious sexual experiences tacked...
...piece with the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall plan in that it was coldly directed against Russia's power, obstructionism and delay. What Marshall said was simply this: after two years of operation, U.N., because of Russia's paralyzing use of the veto power, is a complete sham. Now the U.S., by an appeal to the world's conscience and to the world's small powers, is going to try to make it work. To lay the groundwork for his main attack, Marshall went rapidly and accusingly over old and persistent Russian provocations...