Word: mock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which offered no prospects for serious discussion. Indeed, we knew that in planning for a debate SDS-UAG had discussed how to manage the meeting, including questions from the floor, so as to assure that SDS-UAG prevailed. If SDS-UAG desires a serious debate rather than a rigged mock trial there is no problem...
...them Viet Nam veterans, Manor and Simons set up a secret training center at Eglin. "It was sort of by invitation only," says an Army officer. "The invitation didn't indicate when the dance would be over, but it did mention that it would be dangerous." A full-size mock-up of the Son Tay camp was built in the vastness of Eglin's preserve, based on intelligence from travelers and diplomats who had heard about the camp in Hanoi, and aerial reconnaissance. It was put up each night and taken down each morning to preserve security. There were other...
...John Mitchell joined the Nixon Cabinet, and they moved with Daughter Marty, now nine, to Washington, where Martha, whose mother would not let her study dramatics, found herself front and center on the biggest stage in the world. "I have so many roles to play," she said recently in mock despair to a friend...
...Elvis or the simple life. It all comes to you courtesy of MGM or Warner Brothers, and, just as the form is the cold, calculating product of the corporate arm, the content has been twisted and frozen. Elvis is no longer Elvis and Woodstock never really was. Instead, they mock our need for a heroic and honest past...
...hands, three fingers and a thumb. Bert, who has one frowning eyebrow, chivvies Mutt-and-Jeff style with Ernie, a bulbous-nosed charmer whose favorite sport is sitting in the tub, rhapsodizing to his rubber duckie. Oscar the Grouch lives in a garbage can. There he fulminates, venting such mock aggressions that by comparison a child in a tantrum is Little Mary Sunshine...