Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Parris Island, a recruit was suspended by his arms from a chinning bar in a mock crucifixion that ended only when his fingertips went numb...
...reach a verdict. After deliberating less than four hours-including a break for dinner -the board last week acquitted Staff Sergeant Harold Bronson of involuntary manslaughter, maltreatment and assault. Bronson, a drill instructor (D.I.), was tried for the death last March of Private Lynn E. ("Bubba") McClure. During a mock bayonet drill supervised by Bronson, other recruits beat McClure, 20, a mental retardate, into a vegetable...
...entrance examination for Yale College and passed it. Perhaps in the belief that Yale needed time to prepare for his arrival, John Trumbull waited six years before entering, then remained at the college for nine years as a student and instructor, and finally commemorated his stay with a satirical mock-epic poem called The Progress of Dulness...
...Andrew Bell, some 20 years his senior, who had begun his career engraving dog collars and progressed to the eminence of Edinburgh's leading printer-engraver. Bell stands only 4 feet 6 inches tall and has a huge nose, but he disarms the mockery of others by making mock of himself. He mounts his giant horse with the aid of a ladder, carrying with him a papier-mache nose to enlarge...
...University daily to characterize the party of a visiting foreign dignitary as a "traveling show," it is a rude petty gesture to portray this distinguished visitor with pictures and words notable only for their lack of talent and taste. These moreover, share the kind of pretentious irony and mock muckraking to which the rest of the page pretends...