Word: mock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Filipinos were on hand to enact earnest welcoming playlets, sing, dance or pose as "tribesmen" in outdated garb. During one motorcade, a phalanx of trained water buffalo knelt in reverence just as the pontifical car swept by, while at another point a beaming bride and groom in a mock wedding paused in mid-ceremony to wave to the Pope from a bamboo roadside chapel...
...administrators are considering disciplinary action against a fraternity that staged a mock rally in Harvard Square Saturday demanding capital punishment for homosexuals, the MIT News Office reported yesterday...
...Horne jumps up from the table, swinging her arms in a mock punch scene, one can't help but be struck with the contrast between this lively, gesticulating comedian with the short brown bobbed haircut and laughing eyes, and the calm, cool, unruffled pointguard out on the court, setting the pace and bringing the ball down with a business-like attitude...
...Hasty Pudding Club was founded "to cultivate the social affections and cherish the feelings of friendship and patriotism, being the first of duties and sublimest of enjoyments." The club began holding mock trials of its members in the early 19th century, and switched over to burlesque when advocacy got boring. The first show, Bombastes Furioso, opened...
...year. Those fears turned out to be well grounded. Samghabadi was arrested and terrorized in an effort to use him to frame Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, former Foreign Minister and a close associate of the Ayatullah Khomeini, as an agent of the CIA. He refused and was subjected to a mock execution. Now safe in the U.S., Samghabadi tells of his arrest-and flight...