Word: mock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said the President blithely, the general is in the U.S. now. He can do anything he pleases without the slightest interference from his Commander in Chief. Does the same thing apply to General Whitney? That seems to be the case, cracked Harry Truman, with a look of mock despair. He has strings he could pull to restrain both generals, said the President, but he isn't going to use them...
Other U.S. airmen joined the outfit, and the South Koreans soon learned to fly their Mustangs. Hess found them keen, aggressive, but too tense. He relaxed them by various pranks in the air, such as dangling a lazy leg out of his cockpit and staging mock pistol duels with his wingman. Meanwhile, he was out daily in assaults on the enemy for the U.S. 25th Infantry Division which called him a "one-man air force" and gave him the Army's Silver Star...
...Business School has already built a mock-up of the new classrooms in a temporary workshop. Classes will use it until the end of the year and make suggestions how it can be improved...
...blackboard-screen rest on tracks, end can be pulled three and a half feet out of the wall. There are no windows in the mock-up room; indirect flourescent lamps and spotlights in the ceilings are used instead...
...design represents a substantial departure from the conventional classroom layout. For that reason, it was deemed prudent to construct a mock-up room for experimental purposes. On the basis of experience in the test room, it should be possible to make substantial improvements in the design before the final plans for Aldrich Hall are completed...