Word: jested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Three years ago Strauss, perhaps only half in jest, said, "I hope things never get so bad for the German people that they have to elect me Chancellor." Experts agree that conditions will have to get considerably worse if Strauss is to have a real chance of winning the top job. Despite the growing popularity of what he says, he personally remains intensely disliked and feared outside Bavaria as ein gefährlicher Mann (a dangerous man). That may be a reaction not only to his ultraconservatism but also to the authoritarianism he demonstrated in his Cabinet positions...
...Clemente is called "Elba West" by some, and the term becomes less of a jest as time goes on. There is no accurate measure yet of the internal disintegration of Nixon himself. But the toll being taken among those men who served Nixon during the Watergate crimes is terrible. Wives have turned against husbands. Children have turned against fathers. Jobs are difficult to find. Immense legal debts threaten to burden families for the rest of their lives...
...from 1.3 million now and 2 million in 1973. One reason: thrift institutions (savings and loan associations and savings banks), which do the bulk of mortgage lending, lost $2.5 billion in deposits from April through August, the largest for any comparable period. Despite Cenker's jest, commercial banks are not yet hurting, but they could be if they have to start foreclosing some of the $10 billion in loans that they have made to real estate investment trusts, which finance such projects as apartment houses and shopping centers. "The effective cost of [short-term construction] funds...
...what with the new math, computers, and the like." He frightened one lady so that she wouldn't even open the door. One old biddy got pretty insistent, trying to find out what two total strangers were doing on her doorsill that Bill, God bless him, retorted--completely in jest of course--that "we aren't mad rapists, lady...
Jackson knows how to keep clear of all of baseball when he wishes. In fact, his life is so busy off the field that he says, only half in jest, "I play baseball as a sideline." A typical day off begins in midmorning when Jackson climbs out of bed in his penthouse apartment overlooking downtown Oakland. (Later this year he will move into an $85,000 condominium in the Berkeley Hills.) Once he has selected the day's outfit from three oversized closets that contain 100 shirts and pairs of pants, twelve leather jackets ("I've got every...