Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHITE AMERICA. The pain, the humor, the anger and the pride of the U.S. Negro's history spring to pulsing life in this collection of dramatizations drawn from newspapers, journals and letters...
...DOOLEY REMEMBERS - THE INFORMAL MEMOIRS OF FINLEY PETER DUNNE, edited by Philip Dunne. An affectionate portrait oJ Martin Dooley, the imaginary Irish bar tender in Chicago, and his creator, Newspaperman Finley Dunne, who put in Dooley's mouth some of America's best political humor...
There were two glimmers of real humor. One had to do with General de Gaulle's fondness for the possessive -how he likes to say "my bomb, my army, my Europe and even, on occasion, mon Dieu." The other was a remark about the virus that has got the best of Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home. Said David Frost, British M.C. of That Was the Week That Was and a guest on the American show: "Hume is in bed with flu, or if you prefer, Home is in bed with...
Answering questions, Goldwater displayed the candor and earthy humor that make him an engaging political personality. He would, he said, enter primaries in at least Illinois, California, New Hampshire and Oregon. But, he said, "it's gonna be a real rough go. It's difficult for a Westerner from a small state, population-wise, to get the nomination. And I'm willing to take that chance." He said that he saw "no incompatibility" in filing for re-election to the Senate while running for President. Reporters reminded him that he had been sharply critical of Lyndon Johnson...
...Holy Land, his impressive character emerged with clarity. Time and again the frail, 66-year-old Pontiff found himself engulfed by riotous mobs in an almost carnival mood that-in all innocence-threatened his life. It was a severe test. By meeting it with unfaltering patience and good humor, Paul VI appeared before the world as more than merely an intellectual pastor; he stood forth as a man of intense inward dedication, piety and exemplary courage...