Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is a tendency, a product of the egotism in all of us, to mock the unfamiliar in other men's faith and worship. Such words as 'heathen,' 'idolatry,' 'superstition.' are used more often as smear words or in derision than in their legitimate meanings. They are words we hurl at others; seldom do we apply them to ourselves. Yet every man should command respect in the moment when he bows before his god. We may believe that his conception of the Divine lacks valuable, even essential, elements. His forms of worship...
...Coordinator. Soaring high into the clean, quiet void - where at times the visibility stretched for more than 200 miles - the planes streaked counterclockwise around the earth - eastward across the U.S., over Newfoundland, past North Africa, Saudi Arabia and Ceylon (giving the Soviet Union a wide berth), made a mock bomb-run off the Malay Peninsula, cut back over Manila, then Guam, headed across the wide reaches of the Pacific to California (see map). Below, in daylight hours, the world spun like a giant relief globe; sometimes at night the planes butted their way through air so charged and turbulent that...
...Hungarian team, which gained asylum after the end of the 1956 Olympics, swam last night as part of a nation-wide fund raising tour. The water polo team, which defeated Russia in a highly controversial game in the 1956 Olympics, split into two squads and staged first a mock game, then a "winter rugby match," involving heads and feet instead of hands. match," involving heads and feet instead of hands...
...Britain 21 years ago. He spoke no English, faced an even more formidable obstacle for a car toonist: he was baffled by British humor. By reading and rereading Alice in Wonderland, he rode (as one colleague says) to "his conquest of Fleet Street on the back of the Mock Turtle." In 1941, Alice-sized (5 ft. 3 in., 120 Ibs.) Vicky landed his first successful newspaper job with London's News Chronicle. After twelve years he quit because an editor refused to run one of his cartoons. Says Vicky: "I have never pandered...
Henry Ford II gripped a steering wheel, nudged General Motors President Harlow Curtice and beamed happily: "It sure looks as if we're going to sell a lot of cars." Lined up behind an outsized mock-up of a dashboard along with four other motormakers last week (see cut), Ford President Ford and G.M.'s Curtice had good reason to toot their horns. As they opened the first postwar National Automobile Show in Manhattan's Coliseum, 8,000 potential customers lined up outside. In the first two days, 70,000 plunked down 90? apiece just...