Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than anyone else. Thus the familiar, revered image is seen everywhere in Russia-framed in classrooms and pasted on peeling walls, idealized on canvas and frozen in marble. It is almost as ubiquitous in China, where it is often carried in processions, shaped of paper or flowers, surrounded by mock dragons and popping firecrackers...
After a 29-day, twelve-hour, four-minute, 55-second absence, Jerrie Mock, 38, flew into her home town of Columbus, Ohio-from the direction opposite the one she left in. In between, she had lost three pounds, flown the Atlantic and Pacific, covered 22,858.8 miles with 21 stops and become the first woman in history to fly solo around the world. Mrs. Mock had moxie. A pilot for only seven years, the petite blonde had logged just 750 solo hours before setting out. Her single-engine Cessna 180, Spirit of Columbus, was eleven years old, and even Lloyd...
...heavy schedule of travel and speeches, and his forty-seven years in Soviet politics make Franklin Roosevelt's harrowing public years seem lush. The reports of the Soviet leader's death may be true next time, perhaps before the world situation has changed substantially. While the sensations of the mock death scene enacted this week remain fresh, it may be worth considering what a world without Khrushchev would be like...
After the landings, four days of maneuvers were scheduled in the mock war. While U.S. officers were interested in seeing how troops of the two nations would mesh in such a situation, the main point had already been made. It could hardly be missed either by the Soviet military strategists to the north or by Red Chinese forces threatening nearby India to the east: the U.S. is equipped to put a lot of troops anywhere, anytime-and fast...
...elephantine is the gestation period of Detroit's new models that, in Iacocca's three years as head of the Ford Division, the Mustang is the first car that he can call completely his own, from blueprint through mock-up to production line (see adjoining color pages...