Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through dinner and showtime, President Johnson was in one of his most ebullient moods. He cringed in mock terror as Spanish Dancer Mary Moore cracked a bull whip over his head. When Star Attraction Eddie Fisher got fouled up in his microphone while crooning his way among the tables, it was Lyndon who rushed to the rescue and untangled him. Then, just in case someone might think that Rancher Johnson had gone too citified in his ways, the show wound up with a demonstration of sheepherding by a band of hill-country collies...
Henry, a druggist in Clarksdale, Miss., has had a leading role in the Mississippi civil rights movement from its beginning. In a mock election conducted by the Freedom Democratic Party two weeks ago, he ran against Senator John Stennis (D-Miss.) and received some 63,000 votes, mostly from disenfranchised Mississippi Negroes...
...Harvard mock-selections of the 1950's however, a curious phenomenon occurred. Although Stevenson won in every other division of the University, two huge majorities for Eisenhower, 75% in the Business School, and 60% in the Freshman class, put the Republican over the top in the total University vote. The Crimson made a valiant attempt to give it to Stevenson, bringing in Law School totals from a different poll, but the result was accurately declared fraudulent by the Harvard Young Republicans...
They described the Freedom Vote planned for Nov. 1-3, in which "mock election" COFO hopes more people will vote than in the real one, making it possible for them to challenge the legitimacy of the elected officials later...
...Erie beach last week looked like a product out of science fiction, a warship from some future conflict. Huge fans to port and starboard blasted downward into sand and foam; giant propellers in the stern shoved the vehicle along as it carted its cargo of armed marines through a mock invasion. The strange craft moved at speeds up to 80 m.p.h. without touching either land or water...