Word: shamming
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...rocking Stellenbosch. The traditional relationship between the university and the ruling Afrikaner establishment has been shattered. The faculty is in intellectual rebellion against the state, and students have been discussing much more than rugby since March 6, when 27 professors and senior lecturers denounced Botha's reforms as a sham and resigned from the National Party...
Some students said they think that the grand jury's decision to drop charges proves that there is little evidence for the Brown women's claims. "I think that if they got off, [the alleged assaults] must have been a total sham," said one student who wished to remain unidentified...
...case of the earlier proposal, however, the prospects for last week's offer seemed bleak. Najibullah bluntly qualified the initiative, stating that "if someone continues to fire, he will get a fitting rebuff." Mohammed Nabi Mohammedi, the rebels' chief spokesman, labeled the cease-fire offer a "sham" and immediately rejected...
...lonely man and his pride is that you will treat him as a proud man or be very sorry you ever saw him. He talks as the man of his age talks--that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness...
...application to the high court, Grutnam complained that "the public largely perceives the situation to be one in which the defamers prevailed." He also said Jacob's action makes "a sham" of the verdict...