Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hatter, Cheshire Cat, Dormouse and Ugly Duchess may be absent in the original version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but this charming facsimile of the preliminary manuscript is laced with Dodgson's (nom de plume: Lewis Carroll) own penmanship and fanciful, spidery sketches of White Rabbit, Mock Turtle and Alice as he first conceived them...
...Federal Government must take over the anarchic governments of Mississippi and Alabama and give the Klan killers fair trials. Double jeopardy would not apply because the killers never were in first jeopardy at their mock trials. ALFRED T. KING...
...century, James Bond's well-armed Aston Martin DB5. The Bondmobile, piloted by a U.S. racing driver, cornered so closely that it fluttered the bunting in front of the box seats and left tire rubber all over the arena-which was also littered with cartridge shells from the mock...
...cheap at twice the price. Dodgson's first draft, it turns out, is something more than a literary curiosity. It is only half as long as the Alice everybody knows; the White Rabbit, the Mock Turtle, Father William and the Queen of Hearts are all there, but the Mad Hatter, the Dormouse, the Cheshire Cat and the Ugly Duchess are still swimming undiscovered in Dodgson's inkwell. The earlier Alice, however, is much more than half as interesting; though it lacks the rococo richness of the final version, it has a primitive charm and artless appeal that make...
...newsmen rushed into the All-Star dressing room after the game, Coach Graham held up both hands in mock surrender. "I know what question you're going to ask. Why didn't I put Huarte in sooner? Well, that's the way we had them listed: Staubach, Morton, Huarte. But I'll be second-guessed about this for months." Even years, maybe...