Word: shams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bluff at Sapporo. The Austrian and French ski teams announced that they would withdraw from the games if "even one" of their members was disqualified. The flinty Brundage, now 84 and due to retire after the Summer Games in Munich, was determined not to fold. Rather than make a sham of the games by ousting 30 to 40 of the world's top skiers, he and the I.O.C. settled on one scapegoat. Just three days before the opening of the Sapporo games, and by a compromise vote of 28 to 14, the committee agreed to disqualify Schranz, a veteran...
...Vietnamese officials in Paris promptly dismissed Nixon's broadcast as a "perfidious maneuver to deceive the American electorate in an election year." When the U.S. proposals were formally presented at the 143rd meeting of the Paris negotiators, the Hanoi spokesman similarly accused Nixon of "holding out bright prospects of sham peace during the electoral campaign." A Viet Cong official insisted that the secret talks had been kept private only "at the imperious demand of Mr. Kissinger," yet also assailed Nixon for a lack of "credibility" in disclosing their substance. The Communists refrained from outright rejection of the Nixon plan, however...
...country as a whole, "us" in the sense of John Kennedy's mourners. Certainly, it's for the better that we've been deprived of some illusions, stripped of the comforting passivity of political idolatry, forced to see the New Frontier and the Alliance for Progress as a sham, compelled to recite eulogies for the War on Poverty and for the Great Society, and thrust into the reality, again, of war's immorality, seeing the innocent we've killed and living we've helped destroy. Still, there was some good in feeling some value in believing that we would grow...
...basic argument of the liberationists is that coeducation is a sham unless it means genuine equality. The issue has been raised particularly on once all-male campuses that have recently gone coed. Last week, as Dartmouth became the last Ivy League school to drop its all-male tradition, trustees voted to admit coeds at a 4-to-l ratio of men to women, a standard similar to that followed by Yale and Princeton. Rather than being delighted with the change, many coeds argue that the quota system is demeaning and condemns them to second-class status on campus. Female academics...
...Terrace, had not shipped her off to an English boarding school in 1899. Miraculously, it was an enlightened place in which Eleanor blossomed. She excelled at studies, developed poise, and made the joyous discovery that the very traits that bored her family-candor, compassion, energy, an aversion to sham -could be highly valued...