Word: mock
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...Chicago the Food and Drug Administration, acknowledging growing public concern, held the first of three public forums on g.m. foods. FrankenTony showed up, along with a covey of kids dressed as monarch butterflies, feigning death before a mock cornstalk--an allusion to the discovery by scientists last spring that, at least in the lab, pollen from g.m. corn can kill the butterfly's caterpillars. Not to be left out, Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman was said to be considering the appointment of a panel of experts to advise him on the pros and cons of biotech. And in the surest...
...reviews the words that will go out under his name with a keen eye for the pompous and overwrought. When he spots a sentence that wouldn't make sense to the average layman, Bush peers over his half glasses and reads it back to his staff in a haughty, mock-intellectual voice. "He's always asking,'How can we say it more directly?'"says a top aide...
They slapped me around in the beginning. I wasn't a "good boy," but as time went on, I learned it didn't pay to be a smart aleck. There were mock trials. I said, "I will not answer any of your questions." The next day they marched me to a large hall. They said, "Here is a piece of paper. If you don't answer these questions by the count of 10, we'll shoot you." They put a gun to my head and started counting...
...Hughes, someone holds this life that we all cherish. You may call him Christ, Allah, Vishnu or Bob, for that matter, but Hughes shouldn't think he was saved because of an astute Aborigine or some glitch in chaos theory. It is normal to fear death, but to mock others' faith when one's life has been spared is not only confusing, it's disgraceful. ADITYA SURENDRAN Edison...
...This is not to imply that the show is some millennial tent revival. Indeed, the cast constantly jokes about Fowler's connection to his character: "If there's a scene in rehearsal when I'm not doing much, we'll play a mock game of 'paper, rock, scissors' where I win every single time. If I went to a party, and they didn't have enough to drink, they'd be like 'get over here, we've got a bucket of ice--change this into something!'...Some people say they're really reluctant to piss me off now, because...