Word: humor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Somehow, Harvard Coach Joe Restic maintained his optimism. After the final indignity had been inflicted upon his team, a loss to Yale at The Stadium, Restic showed rare humor. To a reporter's question about why the Harvard-Yale series is so close--in Restic's time here, Yale holds a 10-8 advantage--Restic smiled...
...this season be remembered for Restic's humor...
...laughing matter that the party has now lost five of the past six presidential elections. In Peanuts there is a running joke that every time Charlie Brown races forward to kick a football, Lucy grabs it away at the last second and he takes a pratfall. The humor, of course, lies in Charlie Brown's earnest belief that despite the implacable evidence of history, this time will somehow be different, and the pigskin will finally go sailing through the uprights...
Jason McDevitt was short. He had a high voice. We called him Mickey, as in the mouse. Such is the humor of 11-year olds...
...Some people are inclined to take everything so seriously that the slightest amount of humor brings hurt to them," said Jeff K. Wyatt, a co-social editor. "Maybe people need a little more bran in their diets...