Word: mock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest surprise. Britain, said Callaghan, would switch from the traditional pounds, shillings and pence to decimal currency in 1971. By now the Tories were in full cry. "An uproarious farce," shouted Conservative Leader Ted Heath. "The government is bereft of ideas and fuddy-duddy." Wilson buried his head in mock despair and nearly fell off the bench laughing. Above the roar, Economics Minister George Brown could be heard shouting, "We're on our way, brothers...
...sometimes the only, industry in many new countries-and corruption is a way of life. Many of the new nations do not have minimal communications and transportation, or enough educated men to fill a new country's needs. In some cases, arbitrary national boundaries cut across ethnic groups, mock the rational use of resources, and defy any foreseeable hope of achieving distinct national identity...
...even true satirical purpose, or what Critic G. K. Chesterton in A Defence of Nonsense called "a kind of exuberant capering round a discovered truth." A craze occurs when an acquired taste unaccountably becomes an addiction. Without ever believing in it, audiences find the spoofery easy to swallow. But mock espionage may be hard put to survive a throng of second-string undercover men who seem badly in need of vocational guidance...
After centuries as the playing field of England's budding politicians, Oxford University understandably plays its own games of academic politics in mock-heroic earnest. Harold Macmillan twice won the prime-ministership by wider margins than his 1960 squeak into Oxford's chancellorship. "There's nothing most dons [professors] like better than a good bitchy election," observed the Sunday Times. Last week the bitchiest one in years had Oxford-and the nation -twittering as the port was passed...
...them that he was trying to lift $500,000 stashed in a wall safe. The cops persuade themselves that ill-gotten gains might as well line the pockets of two hard-working law officers, and conspire to do some Cotten-pickin' after hours. Their moonlighting ends in a mock-Shakespearean finale. While Montalban overacts outrageously, Ford fires bullets along with a somewhat more lethal barrage of words, words, words. "It isn't the money," intones Ford. "It never is. It's people. The things they want, and the things they...