Word: sham
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...Little Red Riding Hood--Sam The Sham...
...have no business getting mixed up in such deals. A 65-year-old jurist with a reputation for working long hours and never ducking the tough cases, Weinfeld insisted that the bargain deprives a defendant of his rights without due process, impairs a judge's objectivity, makes a sham of the guilty plea and "has no place in a system of justice...
...decided it had had enough pop shots. Farley announced that the company was awarding an Israeli franchise to Manhattan Banker Abraham Feinberg, who is also president of the Israel Development Corp., which promotes Bonds for Israel. The decision, crowed the Anti-Defamation League, "will show other American corporations the sham that the Arab boycott really is." The Arabs remained to be heard from...
...truth of its contents before a notary public. Skeptical, Hilton's lawyers forced Mrs. Surowitz to take the stand in a Chicago federal district court to prove her understanding of all the details in her 60-page complaint. Naturally, she flunked the quiz. Calling it "a sham," the judge dismissed the suit. Because Mrs. Surowitz was "wholly ignorant," a higher court upheld the dismissal...
...South, clubmanship has become the most popular way to avoid compliance with the discrimination-banning public accommodations section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Even a "membership-only" hamburger joint is technically beyond reach of the law. "You've got to prove it's a sham," says John Doar, chief of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. "It's more than a matter of having a Negro testify that he was refused service. You've got to have a white person testify that he was served"-without actually being, a member...