Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other hand, when McNamara proposed a military pay hike, Korth wrote a blistering letter to protest that the increase was inadequate. He has cemented friendships for the Navy on Capitol Hill with his frank answers, booming voice and earthy humor. Georgia's Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, likes Korth so much that he took him along home recently to meet all the Vinson relatives in Milledgeville...
...deal with my colleagues fairly. I try to live up to my word. I don't try parliamentary tricks." One exception, a Democrat with little affection for Kuchel, is Ohio's conservative Frank Lausche, who was once a victim of Kuchel's occasionally earthy humor. Kuchel came onto the Senate floor one day while Lausche was earnestly orating, slipped up behind him, and hissed into his ear: "Baloney!" Lausche froze, choked, completely lost his train of thought...
Cooper was in other ways disconcerting. He has a passion for fast cars, drives his 1963 Sting Ray Chevrolet at speeds upward of 100 m.p.h. His humor is unpredictable. Before the first Mercury flight, by Shepard, Cooper was asked to demonstrate to television cameramen how the astronaut would ride to the launch pad in a van and enter a gantry elevator for the space shot. Cooper donned a silver space suit, walked to the elevator entrance-and stopped in mock horror. As cameras whirred, he grabbed a girder and screamed: "No! I don't wanna...
Maturity, however, has not destroyed their playfully off-color sense of humor. The Dunces have a traditional knack of giving the most innocent subject heavy sexual implications and the new selections prove that this skill has not been lost...
Less successful is the Scholar's Lament, which tells of a Lamont-bound student who suddenly feels the desire to be "more adjacent" to a 'Cliffie. Here the humor is strained and the tone is hardly memorable. Please Darling is well done but the humor fails. The Lehrerlike Drainpipe Song is just a bit sick...