Word: sham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peking's power and its ability to threaten let alone conquer other Asian nations. He thinks that the U.S. blundered by waging a worldwide campaign to isolate Red China (though he concedes that China did a great deal to isolate itself), and he regards as "silly" and a "sham" the U.S. policy of recognizing the Nationalist regime on Taiwan as the legitimate government of China. Reischauer's prescription: grant immediate diplomatic recognition to Mao Tse-tung, seek Chinese admission to the U.N., and declare publicly that the U.S. wishes harmonious relations with China. He knows that this would...
...union's argument, he said, "is specious and sham." The son of Spanish immigrants who learned his respect for the law while working in the fish markets by day and law school by night, Nunez concluded his lecture to the teachers with a stern stricture: "Law means nothing unless it means the same law for all. This strike against the public was a rebellion against the Government; if permitted to succeed, it could eventually destroy Government with resultant anarchy and chaos...
...schools have made no effort to teach children about the role of the Negro in America, and Negro History Week tends to be a sham...
...back up its threat, it set up guns on the heights of Sham el Sheikh and trained them on the narrow Tiran Strait that controls the gulf's entrance, planted mines in parts of the passage, and sent torpedo boats and jets to patrol the waters. Israel announced that it would consider a blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba "an act of war." The U.S., joined by Britain and France, made it clear that it considered the gulf to be international waters and would oppose any Arab attempt to close it off indefinitely...
Celestial Robes. Lowell came early to his vocation. He was a fifth-form schoolboy at St. Marks, the prestigious Episcopal prep school in Southborough, Mass., when he received his calling. Awkward, myopic, shy, dull in class except in history, he shambled about the sham Tudor buildings. His friends called him "Cal," after Caligula, because he was so uncouth; he liked that, and today is still known as Cal. His nature became clear to classmates after he started reading commentaries on the Iliad and Dante's Inferno. As his roommate, Artist Frank Parker, recalls: "The point was that you could...