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Word: mock (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announced briskly: "Here's the Veep," and pumped his hand. At the top of the ladder, Acheson turned and waved cheerily. "Bring home the bacon," shouted John J. McCloy, the new American High Commissioner in Germany. "Bon voyage" shouted Alben Barkley. Harry Truman looked at him in mock amazement. "What did you say?" he asked, then turned to look for French Ambassador Henri Bonnet. "Hey, Bonnet, this guy's trying to talk French," said Truman gleefully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Promises Are Not Enough | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Vandenberg's selection is the second time that a Harvard group has singled him out for party honors. In May of last year he was given the GOP presidential "nomination" at a mock Republican convention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Young GOP Picks Vandenberg 1948 'Best Republican' | 5/24/1949 | See Source »

Influenced by certain demands of one Joseph Goldstein ... I seek the suppression of Alice in Wonderland because it ridicules the plight of the poor Mock Turtle, a practically defenseless minority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...unconstitutional, it wouldn't work, and it would refute the ideals which we claim to stand for," they said. "Our courts have a policy that a person is innocent until proven guilty. Why should we mock this policy by condemning a party because of its ideals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orators Win One; Lose One in Ivy League Debates | 4/23/1949 | See Source »

...lucky for Pratt that ROTC students aren't subject to military law, because the 16 members of his unit are set to make the mock trial grimly realistic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROTC Mock Courtmartial Tries Trainee for Thievery | 4/13/1949 | See Source »

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