Word: mock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer students voting in a University of Colorado mock election, 600 wanted Nixon and 517 Kennedy. Nixon got 69% of California, captured the Midwest with 61%, knocked off the solid South with 60%. Kennedy got 60% of New Yorkers, carried the East and Southwest...
...musician's collaborator, he was himself alive with music, using dummy tunes of his own invention to coax his words along toward a completed lyric. Hearing some of these mock-up melodies, Richard Rodgers staggered backward in amused horror, but he stood in awe, too, of Oscar Hammerstein's enduring awareness of the music all around him, from the observation in Oklahoma! that "all the sounds of the earth are like music," through The King and I's invitation to the dance-"On a bright cloud of music shall we fly?"-and ultimately to the exultation that...
...cacophonous reception that visibly left Ike bubbling. In the quiet of his suite, Ike and Mamie got together with the Nixons for a photo fest and a few informal greetings. (Pat Nixon, shaking Mamie's hand, said, "I shook 3,000 hands of women yesterday." Cracked Mamie with mock solicitude as she withdrew her own hand: "Well, then, don't bother with mine.") When the preliminaries were over, Nixon briefed the President on the course of the platform construction and got Ike's approval...
Next day Critic Reston followed up with a scalding satire on the President's report, in the form of a mock letter to Ingemar Johansson, recently deposed heavyweight boxing champion...
...reverence for Khrushchev than any other second-rank Russian leader. On one occasion during Khrushchev's 1955 visit with Marshal Tito, his Yugoslav hosts watched in open-mouthed disbelief as the bull-like Nikita and the wiry Anastas whiled away a few idle minutes scuffling about in a mock wrestling match. For all his flipness toward the boss, Mikoyan has always voted with Khrushchev in Kremlin disputes, has been one of the strongest advocates inside Russia's ruling Presidium of Khrushchev's policy of easier relations with the West. In fact, Mikoyan has been its most conspicuous...