Word: mock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warrior was fascinated with the new .30-caliber Belgian rifle which his government had just adopted for the British army. He had one brought to his office, learned to strip and reassemble it, demonstrated to colleagues how to swing the butt and thrust the bayonet in mock combat. One bitterly cold afternoon, he bundled himself up, spent half an hour on a windswept rifle range, firing the rifle...
...launched an oblique attack, seeking to abolish foreign entanglements by abolishing the power to make them. They ignore the fact that the conditions which doomed their views when made in the open, namely, the state of world politics which requires an ever increasing participation by the United States, will mock whatever success they have by this method. For, if they succeed, they can only make America's inevitable involvement more perilous than even their wildest forebodings would now suggest...
Composer Richard Rodgers, a sight in tights, and Lyricist Oscar Hammerstem II, looking like a surrey with a fringe on the bottom, turned up in a mock audition skit at a party celebrating the closing, after nearly five years and 1,925 performances, of their famed Broad way musical South Pacific. Still the long-run champion of all musicals: Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! with 2,246 performances...
Since then there have been few announcements of progress on STR, but its undercover success has been phenomenal. It produces more power than it was designed for. It has given little trouble and has proved compatible with the mock-up submarine that was built around it. So much has been learned by its frequent operation that the second model, which will actually go into the Nautilus, is an even better reactor...
When Buck Burshears heard of this he reacted with speed and tact. Would the Zuñi chiefs honor the Koshare troop by appointing two representatives to attend a performance of the sacred dances, to see for themselves that no mock was being made of the gods? And to show that the white chief spoke with no forked tongue, he sent two round-trip railroad tickets to La Junta...