Word: jested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With such a comprehensible, attractive Bible available at $2.50 in hardcover, $1.90 paperback, a clergyman phoned Translator Peacock the other day in jest to register a complaint. The Bible, he said, is now "so clear that I don't have to interpret...
...jest as cheap and easy to rejoice...
...that so many observers regard his current junket as a farewell tour. Is the Secretary still hoping that Jerry Ford can pull off the election and keep him on? "Why do you want eight more years?" a friend asked recently. "Only four, only four," replied Kissinger, not altogether in jest...
Sophisticated Londoners jest about the dullness of George and his court. The King has no small talk, and for want of anything better to say, he is likely to end half his conversations with a hearty "What? What?" and the other half with a "Hey? Hey?" Still, George is pleased by every sign of his personal popularity with ordinary Englishmen-at least until the start of the war-and he enjoys the nickname, based on his love of rural outings, "Farmer George...
...remaining two sketches are made of slimmer stuff, but the cast is so good that it gives away Simon's secret: how people guard themselves against the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune with a jest...