Word: sham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...practically every fence post along the 4,000-mile right-of-way, armed soldiers stood guard.* Hawkeyed secret-service men swarmed about the roped-off stations. At the stops were cheering crowds, parading soldiers, marching WAACs; and always, above, clouds of planes. At Fort Benning, Ga. there was a sham battle with deafening noise-an improvised grenade (a potato stuffed with gunpowder) hit the President's car; at Maxwell Field, Ala. the signals got crossed: soldiers puffed 15 times over the obstacle course before a halt was called. After the Army camps came the Douglas bomber plant at Tulsa...
...There is no 'best' book of the month. . . . The attempt to choos a 'best' book . . . is an absurdity . . . an intellectual sham...
...proceedings became even more like real war when the armies began to break the rules of sham battle. In the Blues' prison camp the entire haul of Red prisoners overcame their guards by violence, ran back to their own side to fight again...
...them in Urdu. Though Rommel speaks English, he does not know Urdu, which is a variation of India's Hindustani, a chop-suey language which includes Persian, Arabic and even some English words. While Rommel and his staff stood listening, the colonel rapped out his farewell. "Aj sham ko yihán se bhag jao," said he, which means roughly: "Let's get the hell out of here tonight...
...York the ticker tape rained down as they rode up the Broadway canyon. In Washington they shook hands with the President. Baltimore showed them a sham battle. In Detroit they visited bomber plants. Portland dropped rose petals on their broad shoulders. In Los Angeles they danced with movie stars...