Word: mock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mock courtroom set up in Philadelphia for the American Bar Association last week, five news photographers busily took more than 300 pictures while a "trial" was in progress. The demonstration was staged by the National Press Photographers Association, which is campaigning to open U.S. courtrooms to news photographers (TIME, June 20). Taking pictures quietly, using high-speed film and other equipment that would not disturb the dignity of a court, the five photographers moved around the courtroom so quietly that many of the 300 lawyers present did not know a test was going...
...person in the room. To a question implying that he "cannot refuse to run in 1956," he replied crisply: "That is a decision I have to reach for myself-some time." Asked if Congress should stay in session longer to act on his program, Ike responded with expression of mock horror, then grinned and said: "No, I just think that Congress, when it wants to, can do an awful lot in a very short time, and I am hopeful that they will do so." Coolly, the President answered a question about his surprise proclamation of martial law during last month...
...western scenario has often been parodied. It is true that it is easy to detect an analogy to Le Cid: same conflict between love and duty, same knightly deeds, resulting in the virgin consenting to forget the insults to her family . . . But this comparison is ambiguous: to mock westerns by evoking Corneille is also to point out their grandeur, a grandeur perhaps close to puerility, even as childhood is close to poetry . . . Everyone, children and simple men, recognizes the naive grandeur of western movies. Epic and tragic heroes are universal . . . The trek west is our Odyssey...
...year 1928 was election year, and undergraduate interest in the coming battle ran high. Five hundred student delegates attended a mock Democratic convention in May, with the keynote on a return to Wilsonian ideals and a movement away from government by and for monopolies...
...Smith and former Secretary of War Newton D. Baker were the leading candidates for mock nomination, but a dead lock between the two could not be broken until Thomas J. Walsh, a Montana Senator, was brought forward as a compromise candidate...