Word: mock
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...substituting Mrs. Rebecca Kidder's pudding, which was much more popular. According to the "Thirteenth catalogue and A History of the Hasty Pudding," a late 19th century account of the club's past, Kidder (or Mother, Madame or Sister Kidder) created a dish "so satisfactory that once, during the mock trial period of the club, she was gallantly indicted for witch craft on the strength of her puddings...
...president of the Harvard Mock Trial Team and serves on the governing board of the PBHA Small Claims Advisory Service, which advises poor people about their legal rights...
Jean H. Han '02, a member of the Mock Trial team, said Schwartz is an effective leader because of his dedication and his willingness to listen...
...title given to the 1997 book by Dali's most formidable biographer, Ian Gibson. It's a perfect title, because it drives home two nails at once. First, lovers of modernism have long regarded Dali (1904-1989), the obsessive and boasting narcissist from Catalonia, as a sort of mock-deranged but authentically disgraceful relative. Few could doubt the power and originality of his early work--up to, say, the Spanish Civil War. Equally, few would give the least credence to the recycling of old themes that he did, mainly for the American market, in the 1940s...
...acts: primaries, conventions and general elections. But the primaries are now grouped early in the season, while the hot dynamics of the electronic age reduce them, over a period of a decisive few weeks, to a blur of media impressions, a smearing of hot issues and a spate of mock-angry accusations in "debates" - by adults who hope to lead the nation - that the opponent's mother wears army boots. It is not all bad. The conventions - great countrywide pep rallies - will come in summer's heat, and the long campaign will subject both candidates to the kinds of pressures...