Word: mock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brown University's heavy football team will invade Harvard tomorrow to do mock battle with Coach Henry Lamar's light and still green eleven. The scrimmage game will be played at Soldiers Field following the Navy V-12 Unit drill...
...machine. While his chief is on high with the plotters and the planners, Beedle is at his desk hacking through red tape, making mile-a-minute decisions. No one appreciates Smith more than Eisenhower. Late one afternoon the General entered Smith's busy office, gave him a mock salute and said: "Boss, may I go home...
...Misremembered as the overweening king who got his feet wet by planting his throne on the beach and ordering the tide not to come in. Actually canute, fed up with lickspittle flattery, was making a mock of his courtiers...
...safe-conduct pass for herself and her lover to leave the country. Her wiles and her entreaties had failed. At last she had promised her body. Baron Scarpia, Chief of Police in Rome, smiled. He gave an order that the girl's lover be saved by a mock execution, then signed a safe-conduct pass...
...Pudding is generally known to people outside of the University for its activities in theatricals. This tendency was first marked by staged mock trials prior to 1840 and became a fact in 1844 when a member named Lemuel Hayward, with the help of a few confidants, produced "Bombastes Furiosa." The Pudding has given plays ever since in the early days sometimes as many as seven a year...