Word: mock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world for a Japanese role in this matter is so high as not to permit renunciation. We are reaching the conclusion that the best way is, though it is slow and indirect, to build up politically and economically as a true power. We are certanily tired of being a "mock-up" of a major power...
...editorial staff-and would drop in to the office as early as 7:30 to see if anyone was around. No one was ever there at that hour except former Managing Editor Roy Alexander, another early bird, and Luce would look around at the empty office in mock surprise and say: "Hello, Alex-where is everybody...
...exorcising each other's civil rites. As in many outdoorsy pictures, the final referee is nature, played this time by an erupting volcano that pours lava all over the screen. Next morning the chastened survivors rise to found a civilization that will culminate in miniskirts and movies that mock themselves...
...young enough to be her son. Another woman, admired for supporting her ancient, mentally enfeebled mother, actually beats the old lady. Eldritch also has its girlish flibbertigibbets (Susan Tyrrell and Katherine Bruce), its freak, a hunchbacked girl, and its leper, a whiskery derelict whom the local toughs mock with cries of "baaa!, baaa!" because he supposedly was once seen in an act of bestiality...
These "policy conferences"--mock political extravaganzas spread across the first term of the first year--are the most unusual part of the school, says David Denoon (Harvard '66). Denoon took part in the simulated New Jersey State Senate battle, and when he found himself representing the area in which the jetport was to be built, he consulted engineers, airplane people and technicians of all sorts--and finally wrote a bill sticking the jetport on someone else's constituency. Thus he had saved his voters from low-flying planes, massive traffic and sonic booms--in short, performed a first-class public...