Word: mock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mock marathon entries and seductive models may have held the spotlights in Jubilee's ultra-extrovert publicity up to now, but a theatrical item in the weekend's activities will play a larger part in the future...
Banked with mock turtles, dodoes, lories, red and white queens, mad hatters, March hares and hookah-smoking caterpillars, she manages to make them as real as she is by making herself as unreal as they are. This is the art of fantasy...
...that same year, the Advocate had been launched from the dry bones of the saucy Collegian. That publication had waged a spirited campaign against compulsory, monitored attendance at morning prayers, and met with the wrath of the corporation. A mock Platonic dialogue pointed out that there were four monitors at morning services to note absences and only one minister to offer prayers. "Is it not a shameful degradation of the worship of God," wrote the editors, "to make it a mere instrument for police service...
...Pacific, the admirals wanted to know how Pearl Harbor would fare if an enemy tried to repeat the Japanese coup of five years ago. From the decks of three aircraft carriers, 230 planes were flown against Oahu.* The defense was alerted and did its best in mock dogfights, but the attackers won by "destroying" the vital airfields which ring the great naval base, leaving it virtually defenseless...
...both oceans, submarines scored outstanding successes, "sinking" the flagship of the Atlantic force, and a capital ship (battleship or carrier) in the Pacific. To many a Navy man who sees the submarine as the best warship of the future, this was the most significant result of the mock warfare...