Word: guffawing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent postponement of the Crimson's contest against the University of New Hampshire due to a quarantine imposed on the squad by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health because of exposure to whooping cough is simply the latest guffaw in Harvard's recent, and unfortunate, comedy of errors...
...your only weapons. Every second of uneasy silence is a little death. I launch into my monologue: "You've been reading about Kenneth Starr and grand-jury leaks. Well, I can't get one. I'm the Rodney Dangerfield of investigative reporters." A small laugh, less than a guffaw, more than a titter. But that's all I need. I'm launched...
...Hampshire, where Governor Steven Merrill joked about Reed's imminent appearance before the state senate: "They want to know you don't have two heads, that you don't have horns." Reed, who looks every bit the eagle scout he once was, responded with a guffaw that was too loud by half for his 64-kg frame. The New Hampshire senate, which usually deigns to listen only to would-be Presidents, paid close attention to his message. The ranks of conservative Christians, Reed said, are now "too large, too diverse, too significant to be ignored by either major political party...
Undeniably Elvis is king, but the Onion Weaver's Puppetry reveals him to be a prophet and cultural icon in a way few other media could. Using a multi-level multimedia approach, we guffaw at the professor puppet's scholarly analyses and the confessions of Elvis' sideburns. The live Blue Hawaii scene and the Graceland tour guide, though not puppets, are also side-splittingly funny. Frequent gifts flung to the audience accentuate the notion of Elvis as paraphernalia and keep everyone happy...
...Pygmalion in English class. After studying the play, we were treated to a student matinee performance at the roundabout Theatre in New York city. When Higgins exploded with "Liza, you impudent slut!" a good friend of mine with overlarge eyeballs and a frightening smile cackled madly with a demonic guffaw...