Word: jested
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what a man could do and, at 23, she did it," exulted the Journal. "The stories of her flight came to the EVENING JOURNAL and in none of them was there anything except a jest at the unseen one who traveled with her and who always laughs last. Men call him Death." At a city hall reception, Dorothy bent to kiss New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, and then dashed off several reprises of her trip. "Well, what have I done?" she asked her readers. "I'm the first woman to have flown around the world. I circumnavigated...
...stroyed by Dr. Chay-iz-wi-yuck," says Tammy (Sandra Dee). "When he isn't around, Ah git such a sweetly sa-yud emptiness that it jest cree-yups through the crannies of man beein'. It's got me plum' discombobulated." Observes Dr. Cheswick (Peter Fonda), with face as straight (and wooden) as a tongue depressor: "I like the way you say things, Tammy-it's so unusual." In line of duty, Sandra proves to be a Florence Nightmare. She discovers a patient in the process of operating his neck-traction rig, dashes into...
Colored Historian Richard van der Ross says, only slightly in jest, that the Colored race "was born nine months after the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck," the Dutchman who founded Cape Colony in 1652. Since few white women ventured to join their menfolk, the Dutch encouraged racial mingling as a means of persuading the colonists to stay permanently in South Africa...
Swallowed Revenues. Of all Egyptians, the industrial worker has fared the best under Nasser. Next to him comes the fellah, the timeless peasant working the timeless land. It was the jest of 1952 that Nasser's foremost ambition was to raise the fellahin at least to the living standard of the gamoosa, the water buffalo of the Nile. He has more than succeeded. You can see it simply in the fellah's clothes. But also the fellah, who used to have meat only once or twice a year, now eats it at least once a week...
...addition to being wrong in principle, the recent decision on the Cum Laude degree in General Studies (CLGS) will make it possible for certain unscrupulous alumni to reap a windfall profit. I myself intend to jest that by appending the once-noble phrase "Cum Laude" to my job and school applications, though it did not appear on my diploma...