Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lampoon humor may be enigmatic, but nothing could be as mysterious as the 50-year legend of their mascot, Elmer W. Green...
...motivation spills over, so does laughter. "She's a lot of fun to have around too. It helps when a captain has a sense of humor like hers. It makes life a lot easier for everyone on the team, including me," Wheaton says...
...weary of fighting with White House aides over his budget. In The Thirteenth Man: A Reagan Cabinet Memoir, to be published next year by the Free Press, Bell blasts unidentified "mid-level right-wing staffers at the White House" for a more disturbing characteristic: a proclivity for "sick humor and racist cliches." Examples: references to the late Martin Luther King Jr. as "Martin Lucifer Coon" and comments during discussions about the Middle East that Arabs were "sand niggers...
...never lost his taste for mixing it up in the public economic debate. An engaging speaker, he is also one of the few economists who can write good English. His popular essays and book reviews leaven economic analysis with a dry, cutting wit. "Only someone with a sense of humor could survive reading this book," he began a review of George Gilder's The Entrepreneur as Hero in the New Republic. "And no one with any trace of a sense of humor could have written...
With almost any team you can name, not just the Cardinals, Drabowsky was a relief pitcher in the '60s famous for his sense of humor and a proclivity for charging long-distance calls to the bullpen telephones. Retiring to a brokerage, he wrote a book titled Everything I Know About the Stock Market, filled with empty pages. Just last week he thought of adding a chapter. But on an unlikely afternoon in 1966, Drabowsky turned into the sort of World Series hero Dan Gladden and Tom Lawless have just become, not to mention Al Weis, Al Gionfriddo...