Word: sham
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whom the ACSR is supposed to advise. These speakers contended further that the Corporation then proceeds to ignore practical: all of the ACSR's counsel regarding South Africa policy. One student went so far as to say that when examined in historical perspective, the ACSR is "more than a sham. It is a mockery of a sham...
Determined to expose Fevvers for the sham she must be, Walser resolves to follow in the wake of her newfound renown. That means somehow joining the circus of Colonel Kearney, a bizarre Kentuckian who has hired Fevvers to join a historic round-the-world tour: the American plans to outstrip Hannibal, taking a full troupe of performers and animals ("tuskers across the tundra!") from St. Petersburg to Japan, by way of Siberia, and thence on to Seattle. Walser is hired as a clown...
...describes Moscow's campaign to conclude a treaty liquidating all chemical and biological weapons as a propaganda sham and notes, "There is no question that the U.S.S.R. is much better prepared than the U.S. for this type of warfare...
...trader named Wiltshire tells of being assigned to reopen a defunct post on a remote island. He is befriended at first by a man called Case, who enjoys a trading monopoly. Case persuades the newcomer to take up with Uma, a beautiful, half-naked native girl, and arranges a sham wedding ceremony. Before long, Wiltshire falls in love with his concubine and marries her properly; he also realizes that he and Case are deadly enemies...
...findings: not only were the first Sandanista elections not a "sham," as per the Reagan Administration, but they were downright upright...