Word: mock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Portugal, which has not had a real election for 20 years, held another mock ballot this week. Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar's ticket won a unanimous victory. The opposition, protesting that registration lists were rigged, abstained from voting...
...Baptist Church he listened attentively to the sermon, dropped a $1 bill into the collection plate. Lunch (by the Presbyterian ladies) was Missouri ham. The schedule called for a nap after lunch. But a bunch of "40-and-8" Legionnaires were whooping it up on the street around a mock locomotive, and calling for Harry Truman. He mounted the contraption, posed for many pictures. Then someone yelled: "Ring the bell." Harry Truman yanked the rope, clanged the bell hard and long. The crowd was delighted. So was the President...
...gags that fans like. Two samples: he doffs his cap and, with a great show of respect, uses it to dust off third base to welcome any Cub who hits a home run; if a pitcher hits a homer, he topples over backwards in a mock dead faint. The more Grimm mugs, the better his Cubs seem to play...
...expert work of Fredric March as Joppolo. It was, nonetheless, episodic. Hollywood's Adano, despite an unlimited camera horizon, also manages to be episodic. Its views of shell-struck Adano are convincing enough, and its opening jeep's-eye discovery of the torn little town, with a mocking glimpse beyond shattered walls of a poster of Mock-Hero Mussolini, is excellent. But the people of Adano, despite a few good characterizations, are as un-Italian as so many Americans...
...dock. His tall figure with its small, cruel head was momentarily silhouetted against the light as the carabinieri removed his handcuffs. Koch let his gaze wander with an air of unconcerned, conscious superiority over the crowd. The characteristic twist on the left side of his mouth seemed to mock the spectators...