Word: humorizing
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...very funny. A wonderful of humor. Unlimited energy. Interested in everything. Very down to earth. Extremely unpretentious. Very straight forward,” Burger says...
...Black humor aside, if Sharon were indeed to recover, he would be in for a string of nasty surprises. The Israeli military went to war in Lebanon but failed to defeat Hizballah, shattering the notion that the Israeli Defense Forces could crush any Arab threat. His son Omri faces jail on corruption charges. Hamas runs the Palestinian government. His beloved Sycamore Ranch in the Negev is within striking distance of Palestinian rockets fired from Gaza. His friend and crony Moshe Katzav, the President of Israel, is under investigation for rape. Sharon would also learn that with Olmert's limp hand...
There's a dark sense of humor at work when Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agrees, at the prodding of the Bush Administration, to release to President Mahmoud Abbas $100 million of the Palestinian Authority funds it has frozen - and Abbas's aides then tell the New York Times that the money will be used "to strengthen his Fatah movement and pay salaries to Fatah loyalists." Clearly, the U.S. and Israel have come full circle on the question of Palestinian governance: Now that Yasser Arafat is gone, they appear to be reinventing...
...Ford took those gibes in good humor, another sign of his essential decency; he was not a collector of grievances like his predecessor. But the public perception of his occasional ineptitudes did not help him govern, nor did the heavy Democratic majorities in Congress after the 1974, post-Watergate elections. Ford remained committed to the broad designs of Nixon's foreign policy; one of his first acts in office was to ask Henry Kissinger to stay on as Secretary of State. Two important U.S.-Soviet agreements occurred during the Ford Administration: the Vladivostok Accords of November 1974, which built...
...column every week and told me it was hilarious. Where would my ego be without you? Thanks to the readers, and to everyone who wrote in for advice (both genuine and slightly…less so genuine), and to those who were lampooned (ahem) and had the good humor to laugh about it. It’s been real, whatever that means. See you all at senior bar.Dear Sara,I’m having this terrible dilemma. A friend of mine said something truly incriminating at dinner—you know, the sort of brilliant comment that deserves a public...