Word: mock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spent 18 minutes with Mamie and members of his staff in a new, $750,000 White House air-raid shelter during a mock A-bomb raid. Afterward, Civil Defense officials reckoned that, had the raid been real, the President would have survived, although 120,000 Washingtonians in the neighborhood would have been casualties...
...theses, MacGinnis is superb. His voice and mouth tremble as he seems on the verge of tears, so passionate is his devotion to his religion and his anger at the corruption and venality of the Church he loved. By a lesser actor, this performance would be false with the mock-heroics that generally pass for conviction; MacGinnis makes it quite reasonable, and even subdued...
...Guggenheim Museum, shaped in a spiral that expands upward, will rise on the same site next year. By then Wright's show, which has already toured Europe, will be on tour in the Orient. Among the architectural landmarks on exhibition:¶A full-scale mock-up of the kind of house Wright designed at the turn of the century, which precisely forecast the flat-roofed ranch style of U.S. architecture at midcentury. It featured, among other things, a sunken corner hearth, floor-to-ceiling windows, and storage walls. ¶ Pictures of Tokyo's Imperial Hotel, which Wright built...
Ants are not the models of industry that they are reputed to be. They spend many waking hours just lazing around or sunning themselves. They stage mock-battles and wrestling matches. Before they sleep they often make themselves comfortable by scooping smooth hollows in the soil. When they wake they stretch their six legs and open their mandibles wide as if they were yawning...
...start off, the candidates must master a mock set of rules. In Arco's example of an artificial-language, plurals end in s, numerals must follow nouns and kirn, kima, kime, kimi mean who, whose, to whom, and whom. Candidates must then use the rules to count (bal is one, bals is ten, balsebal is eleven, etc.) and to conjugate verbs (binob, I am; binol, you are; binom, he is; binof, she is; binos, it is; binobs, we are; binols you are; binoms, they...