Word: mock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These worm-eaten soldiers are sacrified on the altar of reputation. Reason is lost as it is defended: heroism is traduced as it is celebrated, Each new deed only provides a richer banquet for ravenous time- "alms for oblivion"- returning to mock the captain as he struts within the monumental mockery of unreasoning heroism...
...impressive display. As part of Operation Okean (for ocean), an attack force of eight vessels built around the new 18,000-ton helicopter carrier Leningrad moved through the North Atlantic toward the Norwegian Sea. There, two larger Soviet task forces lay in Wait to conduct a mock defense near the straits of Skagerrak and Kattegat, the approaches to the Baltic. In the Mediterranean, 45 ships conducted antisubmarine exercises. From the icy Barents and Okhotsk seas to the warmer reaches of the Indian and Pacific oceans, sleek Russian cruisers and black-hulled submarines carried out simultaneous exercises...
...mobster in Roman Polanski's Cul-de-Sac (1966). In Italy these days, no spaghetti western is complete without his brutal snarl. He will star in four pictures this year, produce a fifth himself and is currently averaging $5,000 a week. Rome's feline newspapers may mock him as "the world's oldest hippie," but Slander's fans have made him something of a European folk hero...
Waiting for Arthur. This impasse confers a greater than usual power on seven secretive men who sit in a mock Grecian temple on Constitution Avenue. As governors of the Federal Reserve Board, they have always functioned as a supreme court of money. Today, the Federal Reserve's power to control the flow of new money into business and influence interest rates for lending makes it about the only arm of Government left with much room to maneuver in trying to steer the economy. As businessmen watch their profits drop, investors see stock prices sink, and housewives note other prices...
...Government Center demonstrators will take the M. T. A. to Logan Airport to stage a mass "die-in" According to New England Ecology Center there will be a "mock funeral for victims of genocide in Southeast Asia, racism in America, and biocide from pollution and herbicides in Vietnam." Demonstrators also plan to stage a sit-in at North Temninal to protest the proposed supersonic transport (SST). The sit-in is scheduled to last until...