Word: shams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prevented reasonable assessment. Most efforts to discuss the issues generally reduce to a guilty hysteria which places the blame for all atrocities upon the United States. Guilt may be a justifiable response to the Cambodian invasion but to label it a definitive history is a sham...
...once so distinctive and beguiling. It too recedes at the right moments, turning mellow at points of intensity. When it wishes to be most persuasive, it hovers barely above a whisper so as to win you over by intimacy, if not by substance. This is style, but not sham. Reagan believes everything he says, no matter how often he has said it, or if he has said it in the same words every time. He likes his voice, treats it like a guest. He makes you part of the hospitality...
...much of the rest of the world, the election was denounced as a sham engineered by South Africa. The chairman of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, Akporode Clark, scoffingly dismissed Ciskei's independence as "a pernicious project." Clark called it another step to perpetuate "white domination in most of South Africa while relegating the African people to client states that can be no more than dumping grounds for the aged and infirm...
...used to purchase such assets as a business jet, a Ferrari and several Rolls-Royces. Investigators believe that a sizable chunk of the money may remain salted away in Swiss bank accounts. Further indictments might be handed down against some investors, who knew that the transactions were a sham...
Surviving CWP members said the trial was a sham and refused to testify, after earlier attempting to disrupt the proceedings...