Word: mock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's capital, an underground newspaper, the Washington Free Press, runs a biweekly agony column for the man who would avoid military service; with a mock bow to Lieut. General Lewis Hershey, director of Selective Service, the column is titled: "Dear General Marsbars-Advice to the Draft Resister." All in all, there are more than 100 counseling centers around the country. Milwaukee peace workers last month saw nothing at all odd in setting up a draft-guidance stand at the Wisconsin State Fair in West Allis-with a fudge salesman on one side and a kew-pie-doll barker...
...course begins at dawn. After calisthenics and classroom work, the artillerymen are trucked out to the fort's forested hills, turned loose, and told to evade mock aggressor forces patrolling the 7½-sq,-mi. area. Of 133 artillerymen who took the course one day recently, fewer than 30 got away. The rest were marched, often barefoot, to a simulated P.O.W. compound...
...departure can come none too soon for the 80,000 non-Africans still in the Congo. To many Congolese these days, the words mercenaries and whites are synonymous, and whites and Asians alike realize that they are in mortal peril from revenge-seeking Africans as long as the mercenaries mock Congolese sovereignty...
...score since Arthur Sullivan taught the British public to apprciate real musical fun. Everywhere, some electronic instrument is always plunking against a simple melody, slyly undermining it. Everywhere, a chorus of Beatles is sympathizing with the troubled solo voice, coming in with a soupy "oooo" that sounds a little mocking. At its best the irony is both cutting and touching, as in "She's Leaving Home," where the Beatles mock the uncomprehending parents by singing their parts in falsetto and by underscoring their grief with a treacly, melodramatic cello lament. Yet, like most of these songs, this one mixes deep...
...earth shook to the roar of can non and the bite of heavy treads as German-built Leopard tanks and tank destroyers, more than 100 strong, staged a mock panzer battle at the Bundeswehr proving grounds at Munsterlager...