Word: mock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...score the first basket, the gallery buzzed. No one had forgotten what happened the first time the Trotters played the Lakers last year. After rolling up a comfortable lead over the Lakers, the Globetrotters had nonchalantly started playing for laughs-passing between their legs, setting up a mock pitcher-catcher act, spinning the ball on their fingertips. A newsreel cameraman had recorded the whole humiliating burlesque and Minneapolis never lived it down. Mikan & Co. wiped out part of the humiliation by beating them later in the season, but the Trotters still led the series, 2 games...
...theoretical shooting began last week in Exercise Sweetbriar, .the joint Canadian-U.S. maneuvers to test North America's defenses against invasion from the Arctic. Across the mile-wide Donjek River, 170 miles south of Dawson, Allied troops fought off a mock invader driving into Canada from Alaska...
...simply because they're not "humable." Michael Kidd's first act dances are witty, clever, and completely refreshing creations, and it's a pity there are no more of them. The sets by Horace Armistead have all the briskness of an American primitive. They stand up well under the mock battles, chases, and explosions that occur on stage...