Word: mock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tart-tongued Harry Truman, nearing his 76th birthday at week's end, attended a mock Democratic Convention at Virginia's Washington and Lee University...
...issuing 46 major publications on subjects ranging from the fishes of the Devonian epoch to the New Labyrinthodonts from the Edinburgh coalfield. With a "basilisk artistry" on the lecture platform and "a certain ruthlessness," Huxley loved to bandy texts and split hairs with the theologians. He signed letters in mock church Latin, was "Father-in-Science" to disciples, and called himself the episcopophagous (bishop-eating) Huxley. When "Soapy Sam" Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, twitted him on his "simian ancestry," Huxley smoothly played the wounded gentleman and made the cleric look like...
Just before stepping out of an airtight mock-up nose cone at Ohio's Wright Air Development Center last week, Civilian Engineer Courtney Metzger took a swig of water. "It tastes much better than the ordinary kind in the supply tank," he reported to Space Physician John Paul Stapp. Agreed Stapp: "It's no worse than some of the stuff you get at cocktail parties." As part of Project Hermes, a program that aims to give the first space travelers all the comforts of hygiene, the water had been distilled from Metzger's urine...
Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Donald is caught in a mock-duck version of This is Your Life...
...interview" shows, The Television World Asks. Hardly letting newsmen get in a question, Castro said in the course of a long ramble that the U.S. and Spanish embassies had been helping anti-Castro Cubans get out of the country. "I have always greeted the Spanish ambassador," said Castro in mock surprise. "I did not know he could dedicate himself to counterrevolutionary matters...