Word: mock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Young Democratic Club will "in all probability" hold a mock political convention in the late spring, according to newly elected president Charles Edson '56. He said that the convention is a sign of the vitality of the HYDC, now the largest political organization in the College...
Plans for the mock convention, the first in HYDC history, are incomplete to date, he continued, but a "leading Democratic figure" will keynote the meeting. Edson said he was sure the three-way fight between supporters of Harriman, Kefauver, and Stevenson would create great interest...
...Young Republican Club announced yesterday it would not change its plans to hold a mock session of Congress instead of a GOP Convention next spring until Eisenhower officially states he will not be a candidate for office again...
Using Hingham as the central actor, Harrington sets up a series of charades that deftly mock the American scene. Yet there is little to tie the various charades together save their incisive cleverness. Each character type is presented and then lost in the rush of the following actor. Even Merko the Human Fly, an individualist, is left suspended, in this case on the Eiffel Tower...
...flare-up of Greco-Turkish tension was a reminder of the days when thousands upon thousands of Greeks and Turks lost their lives in bloody conflict after World War I. NATO officers have always been careful not to let Greek and Turkish units meet in mock combat, for fear that they might begin firing in earnest. Now that Greece was embroiled with both Britain and Turkey, the Greeks last week prudently decided to withdraw all their forces from NATO's scheduled war games in the Mediterranean...