Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peace & Humor. The waging of a crusade was the preponderant theme for President Eisenhower as he swept through a busy week that enabled him to make the kind of personal contact that he likes. He whirred by helicopter up to the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. There Commencement Speaker Eisenhower paid tribute to 899 graduates whose "loyalty to country-a perceptive, abiding loyalty-has become a guiding force in your lives." No longer, said Ike, may an officer of the military service be content to be a skilled technician capable of fighting...
...function of helping prevent war and of furthering a just peace has become of transcendent importance . . . The armed forces have become, indeed, great shields to guard the peace." One helpful quality, concluded Ike, is "a healthy and lively sense of humor ... I hope your own sense of humor is sufficiently active to assure your tolerance of the thoughts I have placed before you, even if you feel no compelling reason for pondering them...
Citation: "As president of two universities, you had the patience of Job, the endurance of Samson, the wit of Puck, and the virtue Caesar's wife had not. All these qualities . . . you will bring to ... the baffled world of diplomacy, where good humor and a clear mind are more effective than legalism and ceremony...
Acrobatic Garnish. Neither is a secondhand gagster, and both would run at the drop of a joke book. Their humor is literate, and draws more heavily on the glories of the past than the gags of the present...
...cartoonist for Krokodil, Moscow's sardonic magazine of humor-plus-propaganda, Vitaly Goriaev has many times bitterly lampooned Wall Street as the rotten heart of decadent capitalism. Last week, touring Manhattan as the guest of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists, Goriaev was candidly eager to see what the place is really like. Heading toward the Street in a taxicab, he thought he could sense the pace of city life accelerating. "Time is money," he said. "The closer you get to Wall Street, the more the tempo picks...