Word: mock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mock Sickness. In predawn darkness, hundreds of Philadelphia's streetcar, subway and bus operators clumped into the sprawling, grimy carbarns as usual at 4 a.m. one morning last week. But as they checked in, one after another of them begged off work. They had an agreed excuse: "I'm sick - sick to my stomach." The cause of their mock sickness: eight Negro employes, who had been upgraded to motormen, were scheduled to make their first trial run that morning...
...good voice and presence, and classical training (they are hard to find nowadays), delivers the Salutatory Oration *** Other Commencement Parts by selected Seniors follow. In the last century there was much jealousy and heart-burning over these Parts, and those who were not awarded them used to stage a mock commencement of their own, with ribald Parts, a few days before...
...Italian fronts were dug in and stabilized. It was a return to trench warfare, with modern modifications-a stalemate that U.S. military professionals once vowed they would never tolerate again. Crack German resistance, plus a shortage of Allied troops, had made a mock of their vow. Life behind the fronts had settled into the jumbled, fantastic pattern...
...Mussolini's eye had lost its. glitter. Eight months had leafed away since his fall from power in Rome. In his Nazi-guarded villa on the shores of North Italy's Lago di Garda, he donned his grey general's uniform, began the day's mock routine of a mock Duce...
...Taking the (apparently) longest way round to finish Italian fascism-by mock-saluting the big frog while preparing to clean up the marsh...