Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lempke fish sense is combined with a mischievous sense of humor, and a studied disregard for the pretensions and conceits affected by adherents of the sport. He uses an automatic reel, for instance, considered quite gauche by purists. He blends a mixture of gasoline and an oily substance called Mucilin to use as dry-fly ointment. He stumbled on his own version of the green drake when he noticed the rubber mat unraveling from an old throw rug and worked it into his fly to give it body without adding significant weight. When he is suited up for fishing...
...that insect and related matters, Lempke each day gives advice to fellow fishermen on everything from his wife's recipe for barbecued brook trout to the best rooster necks to use for dry-fly hackles. He serves up his opinions with conviction but also with a gentle good humor, a high threshold for fools and the open-mindedness of an expert. At 66, he says, he still has plenty to learn from the river. "There are no set rules," he says, standing in the Snake, eyes darting upstream. "These are living things. I really think fish are individuals. They...
...snafu in scheduling, the East Room was already occupied (ironically enough, by a conference on government efficiency), and the group was turned away. Fully aware that his relatively low popularity among women could cost him in 1984, the President tried to defuse the situation with a bit of humor. Said he: "I happen to be one who believes that if it wasn't for women, us men would still be walking around in skin suits carrying clubs...
...Washington, humor has become serious business
...Business and Professional Women. It was an unusual kind of slip-up for Reagan, who uses jokes more often and more successfully than any other President since John Kennedy. He is so adept, in fact, that his Democratic challengers are busy sharpening their own jokes on the hustings. Political humor is no longer a laughing matter...