Word: shamming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issues that agitated the voters were profound-more profound than any that Kennedy and Nixon had fought over in 1960. The question of nuclear warheads, though it got most of the headline attention, was largely a sham debate. More basic was troubled Canada's need to set a new economic course, and along with this was what Pearson called "the major issue which faces all Canadians today"-the fissures that have developed between the one-third of the nation that is French, and the English majority...
However, the book also contains a sharp attack on attempts to eliminate opposition parties by Dr. Azikiwe. "Unless an opposition exists," he writes, "as a 'shadow cabinet' capable of replacing the government--democracy becomes a sham...We should be tolerant and allow our official action to be thoroughly scrutinized no matter how it hurts. Failure to tolerate the existence of an opposition party...Is the easiest invitation to dictatorship...We should not give the impression that we have extinguished British colonial rule only to enthrone in its stead its Nigerian counterpart...
...Maid, and The Manner in Which a Lady Speaks of Her Husband, has dwindled into nonexistence, and Emily Post, its grand arbiter for almost half a century, lamented "this modern-day society, when the smart and the near-smart, the distinguished and the merely conspicuous, the real and the sham, and the unknown general public are all mixed up together...
...standing nearby looking down at her. Along the diagonal of their heads and quite out of the light, hangs a painting of a wild bacchanalian rape scene. It is only when one's eyes reach this painting that the formality of the photograph begins to dissolve into sham and one notices that the seated woman's companion may not have quite so placid and unexcited an expression on his face as one first thought...
...professors tried valiantly to discuss some of the Governor's address. They pointed out, for example, that Mississippi's industrialization (so eloquently depicted by Mr. Barnett) would eventually force the state to abandon its segregation views and accept the Constitution. But these lucid arguments did not completely expose the sham in Barnett's speech. That privilege was reserved for a student who quietly asked the Honorable Governor, what were the human rights he wanted the states to protect. Mr. Barnett could not name...