Word: mock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Twenty freshmen performed a mock funeral yesterday to protest A&P's sale of lettuce not picked by members of the United Farm Workers Union...
William L. Durette '76, one of the organizers of the mock funeral, said yesterday, "Harvard must become aware that the Farm Workers are boycotting A&P and are urging everyone else...
...invaders quickly identified themselves as members of Black September, the Palestinian guerrilla group that murdered eleven Israelis at the Munich Olympics last summer. Holding a sort of mock court in which the captives were judged according to their country's attitude toward the Palestinian cause, they singled out as hostages the two Americans, Noel and Moore (whom they bound and beat), Belgian Eid, Saudi Host Al Malhouk and Jordanian Chargé d'Affaires Adly al Nasser. The choices did not make complete sense. Though the U.S. and Jordan have strongly opposed the Palestinian guerrilla movement, Saudi Arabia...
...report on the "Fleming Follow" is already in, complete with mock-scientific charts detailing who went in the front door and who went in the back. The tally: of 124 visitors only 21 were women. The composite caller? "Male, white, 50-60 years old...dressed in a blue suit...balding...somewhat out of condition...either ignoring the secretaries or flirting with them, exhibiting an air of self-confidence and likely to remove his coat at some point of the meeting." Such lampoonery, explains Pringle Smith, editor of the business school magazine and a member of the ad hoc committee...
...dividends long ago and in grand fashion. When the 100th show Here's the Pitch, billed as a "Gay '90s extravaganza," opened in 1947, Newsweek and Life each devoted a full page to the event. "The club began when undergraduates gathered in each other's room to put on mock trials," Life reported. "By 1844 they had developed real theatricals...