Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thing. I'd have stopped and buried it in the ditch. I might even have buried the skunk along with it." There are readers who will claim they saw that punch line coming a mile away. These people are almost certainly unaware of Patrick F. McManus or the monthly humor column, "The Last Laugh," that he writes for Outdoor Life. A great pity...
...People like my sense of humor in lecture," says Fleming. Students describe his humor as bawdy, but Fleming says his humor is rooted if, "the tone in which I discuss things." In fact, Fleming says he never tells jokes. "I can't remember them...
...specialist in 18th century English literature, Bullitt was widely recognized for his expertise on the satirist Jonathan Swift, as well as for his wide range of talents and sense of humor. His death came just two months after he filed $5 million lawsuits against each of three tobacco manufacturers and a tobacco trade association, charging that the firms employ deceptive advertising to sell their products and do not give adequate health warnings on packages. His wife said that she had not decided whether to continue the suit...
...Said Chris Johnson, 12: "He really told it to us." Kathy Elliott, who normally teaches the seventh-grade class at the Caddo school, commented, "I didn't think he would be that good, but he really impressed me. He was down-to-earth and had a fantastic sense of humor." Principal Lel McCullough liked the way Bennett kept his students' attention from wandering. Said she: "I'd hire...
...vivid metaphor unheard in the Kremlin since the days of Nikita Khrushchev. Sample: "Certain people in the U.S. are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out." He made political points with biting humor, at one point inviting the U.S. to reply to what it views as Soviet propaganda "according to the principle of 'an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.' " For example, Gorbachev went on, if Moscow announced a suspension of nuclear tests (as it did seven weeks...