Word: jested
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inevitable round of tasteless gossip and sick jokes. "Do you know what Smith said to Rusk at the altar?" runs one gibe. " 'Awright, now stand down, honkey!'" In New York, Black Power Agitator Lincoln Lynch denounced Rusk as a "subconscious racist" and added, only half in jest: "I wonder to what lengths Dean Rusk has to go in order to gain support for his and Johnson's war in Viet Nam." Studs Terkel, a Chicago writer and radio commentator, had nothing against the wedding, but as an Administration detractor could not resist a crack: "L.B.J...
Lionel Nowak, Bennington College music professor, owned no sculpture, but when he saw Tony Smith constructing his gangly Gracehoper-a title Smith lifted from Finnegans Wake-he commented, only half in jest, that it was just the thing for his backyard...
...joke was made on a broadcast Jan. 6, before I was involved in any negotiations with NBC. I was not represented by Mr. Grant at that time and, of course, could not have referred to him. The jest was made in the following context: I was about to leave on my vacation. I said: "Although I'll be off for a couple of weeks, part of me will remain here . . . my ulcers, my headaches, etc. NBC has been very generous in giving me time off during the year. Of course, it pays to have a good lawyer...
...Tonis voluntarily retired from active law enforcement to sit behind a desk in the complex of sparsely furnished offices and whitened brick hallways under Grays Hall. "I guess I enjoy being in an academic atmosphere", says Tonis only half in jest. He graduated from Dartmouth and B.U. Law School before joining the F.B.I...
...favor of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial: "Sure, it looks like granite darts. But it's about time we have something in Washington besides Greek temples and Roman edifices-something from the mid-20th century in which we live." Another something he has suggested, only half in jest, is the construction of floating swimming pools in the Potomac-since nobody seems anxious to clean up the polluted river...