Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frances L. Ansley '69, co-chairman of SDS, read with a mock Southern accent from an interview with a Mississippi Power director. The director admitted that his firm hired very few "colored folks...
...strong and open draft union here could be one of the most effective ways to oppose the war. Already a Berkeley-based group called Campus Draft Opposition has moved to set up a nationwide draft union among students--calling for "we won't go" pledges and mock Vietnam Commencements to dramatize resistance
...tanks; they knocked out several of them with bazookas and recoilless rifles. But the defenders were badly outnumbered and scrambled back inside to call down air and artillery strikes directly on top of their own bunkers, built to withstand 250-lb. bombs. Finally, the Green Berets called for mock bombing feints by U.S. planes; while the NVA were ducking, they broke and ran, escaping from the camp. Some were picked up by helicopters and others worked their way back to Khe Sanh on foot, but Lang Vei had fallen, and with it ten of the Green Berets...
...When he ended, six others came trooping down the aisle bearing a coffin. They overturned it, and out poured hundreds of the Senator's campaign buttons, intended, as one perpetrator explained, to be a "witness to McCarthy's impotence." Peterson, who claimed no responsibility for the mock funeral, was filled with admiration: "McCarthy kept his cool very well...
Organized into six groups, each commanded by a North Korean army captain, the assassination team members had trained for two years in guerrilla-warfare tactics, then practiced their assignment for 15 days in a mock-up model of the Blue House erected in their base at Wonsan. Setting out on foot to slip through the snowy DMZ, each of the 31 wore an overcoat, black sneakers and a woollen winter cap and carried 66 lbs. of equipment, including a submachine gun, a pistol, a dagger, eight hand grenades and one antitank grenade...