Word: sham
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Zululand, last month told white students at Stellenbosch University that "if the majority of whites have now decided to set up blacks in separate states, we have no means to resist it, even if we wanted to." But, he declared, "it must be clear that we do not expect sham self-government, but the real thing." That approach, of giving blacks a political voice in the Bantustans, has eased the Afrikaner's fear of being overwhelmed by black demands in the rest of the country, and has slowly begun to erode the underpinnings of apartheid in the cities...
...Daaaaa! The thought seemed to cheer her up. Her husband ordered a steak sent up to her room, and after she put it away she bounced up and taught a visitor how to do the shuffle and the shim-sham. Soon she was stomping to the music of an imaginary combo and shaking it up like the great little putter-outer she has always been. "Ta-daaaaa!" she yelled as she reached the Durante closer, her arms opened wide and her green eyes glittering happily through her long soft strawberry locks. Quit show business? Come off it! Just watch...
...outrageous tone of Bear's sham-skins makes it clear that the Institute is not one of the bogus diploma mills that peddle apparently legitimate degrees. Still, the Office of the Attorney General of California has now advised Bear that it is concerned over the possibility that some day, someone may use a Fillmore doctorate fraudulently. Rather than fight in court, Bear has returned $400 worth of orders. He plans to sell his idea to an English company and already has a prospective diploma, suitable for framing, with the legend...
Friends have asked whether the decision had been a foregone conclusion all along; more specifically, whether the extensive consultations and famous secret lists of 69 and then 23 final candidates were just a sham to cover up the fact that the final decision did indeed rest solely with the Corporation. The decision, one can say, conclusively was definitely not a foregone conclusion and the consultations did set definite limits on the range of candidates which the Corporation could in good conscience consider. But the questions of these friends raise the possibility that the search might have had a dual purpose...
...tackling everyone and everything. He described the national steel monopoly, Broken Hill Proprietary, as rapacious. He called Cabinet Member Billy Snedden, who is considered McMahon's heir apparent, "an intellectual cripple." He blasted then-Prime Minister John Gorton as "a coward, a charlatan and a sham" for refusing to debate him on the issue of the 35-hour work week...