Word: sham
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legalistic kiss and tell, but Patty Hearst means business. Challenging the bank robbery sentence that she is now serving, Hearst's new Attorney, George C. Martinez, charged that Attorney F. Lee Bailey's "ineffective counsel" reduced her 1976 trial to "a mockery, a farce and a sham." In a nine-page affidavit filed in the San Francisco U.S. District Court...
Richard F. Rowley '78 said. "It's really a sham to say that those notifications were adequate warnings that service would be discontinued." After lodging several complaints with the phone company, Rowley was told he would not have to pay for resumption of service...
...Lindbergh did not consider it unusual when he had to bail out for varied reasons: colliding with another plane in a sham combat attack over Texas; running out of fuel in a fog near Chicago when no one told him that his 120-gal. gasoline tank had been replaced with an 80-gal. tank; losing sight of the ground in a storm in those preradio years and finding his only field-illuminating flare had failed. He wrote that he had accepted his job as chief pilot on the St. Louis-Chicago mail route "with the understanding that each pilot...
...legitimacy" by the outside world. In December a second homeland, Bophuthatswana, will officially become independent, and three more are likely to follow within the next two years. The only one definitely holding out against such independence is KwaZulu, whose leader, Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, dismisses the whole idea as a sham...
...world addicted to pretentious sham, Billy Carter enjoys and insists on just being himself, in spite of the massive handicap of a genetic coincidence. Obviously being born once was enough...