Word: gaggingly
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...this framework, he plays a grown-up juvenile delinquent whose temper tantrums and general unpleasantness make him the despair of his wife (Nanette Fabray) and his friends. Writers and actors give the strong impression that they cannot fill the 60 minutes of Caesar's Hour without repeating each gag twice and sometimes three times. To date, few of the jokes have been good enough to be used once...
...criticized the President's "Gag Rule" as hampering the Army's case...
...years, the suggestion box was little more than an office gag-a handy receptacle for notes telling the boss to kindly drop dead. But in U.S. industry employee suggestions are no longer a joking matter. Since World War II. the battered old suggestion box has blossomed into one of U.S. industry's best sources of production-boosting ideas and one of its biggest money-savers. Last year some 4,000 companies (with organized suggestion programs) got more than two million ideas from employees, found 20% of them worth adopting and paid out something like $15 million in awards...
...would fight on this front all summer and until Thanksgiving, if necessary. Johnson went back to the filibusterers and asked for their terms. They did not want much, really: a vote on three basic amendments. But they also demanded that Knowland stop tabling their amendments and trying to gag them with motions to limit debates. They would not be browbeaten. Johnson hiked back to Knowland, who reluctantly agreed...
...time the field reached Melbourne, it had dwindled to 134. Murray, whose car was rattling along on cracked shock absorbers and a twisted frame, jettisoned half a ton of equipment for the climb across the Australian Alps and home. Wearing rubber monkey masks as a final gag, he and his navigator, Bill Murray (no kin), dawdled through the mountains, stopped now and then to take movies, and rolled into the Sydney show ground last week easy winners. In 17 days on the road they were the only entrants who lost no points...