Word: shams
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...During the staging of one more sham battle in his honor, Amir Amanullah watched with round, startled eyes while a 38-ton tank lumberingly butted and crushed down the brick walls of a model fort. Turning away his head, as though in revulsion, His Majesty declared "How unromantic and terrifying is Western warfare...
...orders from Afghanistan, but last week "The Light of the World" did not so much as take a trial sweep in his expensive toy. What seemed to interest His Majesty most was a military review, during which Reichswehr troops first goose-stepped in mass formation and then staged a sham battle enlivened by dummy tanks, wooden howitzers and other substitutes for weapons which the Treaty of Versailles forbids to Germany...
...spread rapidly, fanned by bitter winds. A general alarm was sounded. Out of the theatres stumbled blinking creatures whose sham emotions were slowly growing real. Clerks put on their shoes and hurried through the streets to office buildings, to rescue documents and typewriters. Traffic became a honking confusion of motorists from surrounding towns, attracted by a hellish red in the sky, visible for 20 miles. A group of enterprising young men started removing papers from the City Hall. Police stopped them. Salvation Army workers served coffee and sandwiches to the firemen. The Elks held open house. All through the night...
Senator McMaster is a farmer's friend. He sits among the Republicans in the Senate but he warned the Republicans before Christmas that he would ask them to talk tariff reduction. He carried out his threat last week, demanding tariff benefits for farmer, denouncing as "sophistry." "sham," "fraud" all arguments to the effect that farmers are adequately benefited by current tariff schedules...
...little, round hills, of funny irregular cities upon whose wide quiet squares a few bewildered people postured, of dark mysterious forests in which Indians trotted and yodeled and performed their gloomy dances. A citizen of London, he smiled; he watched Bunker Hill as if it had been a sham battle fought in an English park and, when Boston was blockaded, wrote a playlet that amused the inhabitants...