Word: mock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Employees sometimes mock his youthful vigor ("Here comes Otis dribbling his shotput through the newsroom"). But they generally respect his hands-off policy. When Chandler asked for an advance look at Times Media Reporter David Shaw's 1976 story on the newspaper business, Shaw questioned the propriety of Chandler's request and the publisher backed down...
...corner restaurant. An Afghani shop owner, addressing my question of how life has changed under the new pro-Soviet regime, replies that the John Wayne movies have gone. In eastern Turkey, when I tell a nomad I am from America, he reaches to his side in a mock draw and with a big grin exclaims. "John Wayne!" Now. back in the U.S.. a South African tourist asks me if I know that John Wayne is dead. He heard the news from a Frenchman...
...must have seemed like an innocent joke. After being required to witness explosions of atomic weapons, some of the men were given commemorative diplomas certifying their successful completion of courses in "alpha ray education, beta ray orientation, gamma ray examination and nuclear radiation." As an added fillip, the mock documents declared them to be "perfect physical wrecks...
...knelt before a memorial in the Warsaw ghetto to victims of Hitler's Holocaust. The Nazi issue arises periodically; the election two weeks ago of Christian Democrat Karl Carstens, a former Nazi Party member, as West Germany's new President provoked protest demonstrations by left-wing groups dressed in mock Nazi uniforms. It was clearly a milestone in national adjustment when the TV series Holocaust was shown throughout the country earlier this year. The series provoked no serious protest, as might have happened in the past. Instead, for the first time, national soul searching about the Nazi period was brought...
This has been a tough year on Harvard sportswriters. First there was the litany of "Hey, what's wrong with the football team?' Then, "Hey, what's wrong with the hockey team?" And now, the question most often asked over mock cheesburger-and-string-bean lunches is, "Hey, what's wrong with the baseball team...