Word: mock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...provoke Pakistan to refuse to return to the talks, which are being held in Geneva. Last Thursday, Afghan jets struck anew at Teri Mangal, one of the border villages hit just three days earlier. This time five Afghan refugees were killed, and eight others injured. The attack seemed to mock the angry diplomatic note of protest issued just one day earlier by the Pakistani government. It demanded that the regime in Kabul "desist from these barbarous and wanton attacks on defenseless civilians...
...just south of the border between North and South Carolina, Heritage is the third most popular theme park in the country (after the two Disney operations). It drew more than 6 million people last year to its 500-room hotel, 2,500-seat church, five-acre water park, and mock gable-fronted "Main Street USA," an enclosed mall with 25 stores and a 650-seat cafeteria...
...character for asides to the camera, and the show may break completely from format on a whim. One of this season's episodes featured a seven-minute Gene Kellyesque dance number. Another was an elaborate parody of The Taming of the Shrew done in Elizabethan costume and mock iambic pentameter...
...hour practice sessions on the day before and the afternoon of the press conference are the heart of the preparation. As mock inquisitors grill him, top aides take notes and critique the answers with Reagan afterward. This time, his senior staff came to a startling realization: it had been so long since he had last held a press conference that virtually none of them had ever been in on the preparations. "We had to put in an urgent call to ask Ed Meese over here so we'd have a little experience," said one top staffer...
Wednesday's rehearsal was a no-nonsense affair: Reagan was asked 36 mock questions, 30 of them on Iran and related issues. (Every question asked at the real press conference, claims an aide, was among those asked at the first practice session.) He answered in a straightforward way, avoiding the jokes he sometimes tells to entertain his audience. "I was really nervous until practice today," said one staffer that afternoon. "The President is on target; he'll do fine." The aide then knocked on wood...