Word: vouch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their roles as spies and traitors of national liberation movements. The last thing the Angolan resistance movement needs now is a thriving coopted native elite. More than the guns of the Portuguese, such a group could set the movement back several decades. Almost any student of Portuguese colonialism will vouch for the fact that the Portuguese are past masters of the art of divide and rule. Indeed, unlike their French, British and Dutch counterparts, they have indicated a willingness to eschew notions of racial purity in order to create buffer segments of racially mixed native middle class groups...
Having been a friend of Mr. Edleman's in college, I can vouch for the fact that he was a professional actor when Nichols cast him and, like so many other thespians (myself included, at one time), drove a cab to make ends meet...