Word: shams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard economist felt that "a prosperity built on this kind of progression is at least in part a sham...
...Dumb to Know. In whatever he did, Bernard DeVoto was tributary to nothing. He was father confessor to scores of Harvard students who, he thought, had a sincere desire to be writers. But when it came to sham-either academic or political-he could be merciless. Occasionally, his reputation for sounding off on everything, whether big or small, tended to becloud his reputation as a serious scholar...
...industry have been as bitter and bumpy as those between General Electric Co. and the C.I.O.'s International Union of Electrical Workers. With out fail, the I.U.E.'s trigger-tempered Boss James B. Carey peppered the company with shouts of "chiseling," called its offers a "sham" and "an obvious trap." Once, in a crescendo of rage, he bellowed that G.E. was an "aid and ally" of the Communists. Usually G.E.'s negotiator, Vice President Lemuel P. Boulware, gave every bit as good...
Five. On Jan. 18, 1955, Judge Youngdahl, labeling the 132 instances "chance parallelism," dismissed the two new counts as "vague charges" which would "make a sham of the Sixth Amendment...
...places, once palaces, now just a sham...