Word: mocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last May, the embassy announced that Moravia's visa had been denied because of a State Department ruling that he cannot qualify under the U.S. Internal Security (McCarran) Act. This action was part of the Administration's campaign to sabotage the act by administering it with ridiculous mock zeal...
...Commerce) Lawrence Lockley, a six-man team of professors worked out the curriculum. They avoided specialized courses in business practices, concentrated on broad social problems. Students attended classes from 8:30 to 4 each day in subjects ranging from child labor to civil rights to Communism. They held mock business conferences, practiced public speaking...
...groups with colored badges) sent out close to 500,000 words on General Eisenhower's homecoming, his first speech as a presidential candidate, and his first political trial by press conference. Ike himself was well prepared for the test. Early last month ten top Washington reporters held a mock press conference and Ike's headquarters sent the questions they dreamed up on to Paris so Ike could prepare himself. After he landed in the U.S., Governor Tom Dewey had his own press aide, James Hagerty, throw tricky questions at Ike in a long session...
Some time ago I was invited, along with Senator James Duff of Pennsylvania and Wayne Morse of Oregon, to address the Oberlin Mock Convention at Oberlin College, Ohio. Since a copy of what is unfortunately the only Breakfast Table Daily in Cambridge containing a letter from one Vernon M. Hawkins, 3rd '51 (a truly extraordinary person whom, try as I may, I cannot dislike) reached me on the eve of that address, and also considering that the remarks I intend to make here tomorrow have a certain limited relevance to the question at hand, I shall quote from that speech...
...wish to congratulate you for printing a fine editorial in this morning's CRIMSON. I refer to Mr. Maccoby's account of last week's Republican Mock Convention...