Word: spuriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus the entire debate on Cuba is a sham, as divorced from reality as anything Fidel Castro has ever said. And while the spurious debate flickers on about what the U.S. should do (when it can do nothing) so does another sham--the American embargo on Cuba trade. This is a sham, because the major commodities in the once-flourishing Cuba-U.S. trade had already been closed off prior to the embargo, and because American shippers are already transferring the few essential items that Cuba still needs from this country through Canada, which has publicly stated that it will...
...Time and again we hear spurious assertions that America's defenses are weak, that her economic expansive force can be sustained only by federal spending, that her educational and health efforts are deficient. In this kind of preachment political morticians are exhibiting a breast-beating pessimism in the American system...