Word: mock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tails, and Hilton had to change the name of the Opium Den bar in his Hong Kong hotel after the Chinese took offense (it is now simply The Den). The popular BBC television satire show, That Was the Week That Was, opened fire at Hilton with a mock Bible lesson: "Brethren, in the beginning there was darkness upon the face of the earth and there was no iced water. Then Hilton said: "Let the earth bring forth Hiltons yielding fruit after their kind. And it came to pass that Hiltons covered the face of the earth and there...
...government. In a far more prosperous society than the war-weary nation that elected the last Labor regime in 1945, the question is what life would be like under new Socialist leaders. Curiosity is most intense among voters under 30, who have been spared memories of the snoek (canned mock salmon), "reconstituted" eggs and whale steak of previous Laborite austerity...
...first Mercury flight, by Shepard, Cooper was asked to demonstrate to television cameramen how the astronaut would ride to the launch pad in a van and enter a gantry elevator for the space shot. Cooper donned a silver space suit, walked to the elevator entrance-and stopped in mock horror. As cameras whirred, he grabbed a girder and screamed: "No! I don't wanna go! I won't go!" The TV men were amused, but not the NASA officials. Again, during Gus Grissom's suborbital flight. Cooper, who had been flying a chase jet, buzzed the Cape...
...costume ball than a play, and it stresses what is sheen-deep in Molière's wit rather than what is skinflinty. Still, in a glancing way, the master French comic moralist's point does get made-that a sin is called deadly because it deadens. Mock-Hero Harpagon (Hume Cronyn) is dead to his children's hope of love, dead to his servants' grievances, dead to any generous stirrings of heart or mind. He counts the world well lost for money. Skittering about like a drunken sandpiper, Hume Cronyn is a dizzy delight...
...substantial supersonic flight time is General Dynamics' B-58. Boeing has 100 engineers working fulltime; at its Renton plant near Seattle on a supersonic project. In its usual guarded fashion, Boeing has been testing models in wind tunnels for at least five years, has built a full-scale mock-up of a cabin section of a Mach 3 jetliner. North American Aviation is building three prototypes of the supersonic B70 bomber. Pooled Skills. But none of the U.S. airframe makers can on its own raise the $1 billion to $2 billion needed to develop...