Word: mocks
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...been a longstanding tradition at Harvard to mock our New Hampshire Ivy neighbors who attend Dartmouth. This does not require an abundance of wit, of course, since Hanover residents tend to be eminently laughable...
...facing a wall. "I just thought: 'Oh, oh, this is the end.' " At that point, he let his story trail off, apparently out of concern for his colleagues still in Iran. But other hostages released last Thanksgiving have disclosed that they went through a mock execution; their guards actually squeezed the triggers on their weapons, which turned out to be empty. Afterward the captives were led back to their quarters in a state of shock...
...Like the mock execution, the talk of a release that never occurred might have been a tactic to demoralize the prisoners. But Queen believes that there really was an effort to free them that the students or their allies thwarted. Queen overheard some captors "really cursing the government, particularly the foreign ministry. They were saying: 'We've been betrayed again.' Evidently, the foreign ministry had worked some kind of a deal...
Chinaglia peered over his shoulder at Jack Brand, the Sounders' goalkeeper. Brand, who played on the 1978 NASL champion Cosmos--Pele's last team--was wearing shorts, at the risk of severely burning his knees on the mock turf. Brand had looked sharp in practice, but strolled languidly now toward the edge of the penalty box, waiting for the blue-spotted ball to reach...
...outraged at the recent acquittal of the four white policemen by an all-white jury in the brutal death of Arthur McDuffie. This mock trial has transported the state of Florida back to the days of the pre-civil rights South. Unfortunately, the phrase "justice for all" is not intended for all Americans...