Word: jested
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...personal liberties, hundreds of young have set out for Florida in flimsy rubber tubes or rafts. More than 1,000 Cubans, the majority of them under 30, have survived the dangerous crossing this year. "Take me with you in your suitcase," pleads a high school student, only half in jest. After months of leniency, malcontents are again being hauled off to jails or rounded up for warnings. Local block groups, with 4 million members, have formed "rapid-reaction brigades" to nip any protests...
...haven't decided whether I'm going to change Bangladesh through reform or revolution," she says, only half in jest. "But it'll have to be done...
...gave the third-term Oklahoma Democrat a newly issued series of stamps honoring some of the spy agency's biggest heroes. Included in the set: Kim Philby, the notorious mole in the British intelligence service who defected to Moscow in 1963 and joined the KGB's inner circle. In jest, Senator Boren asked his Soviet host why Philby's equally famous fellow double agents, Guy Burgess and Donald MacLean, had not been given their own stamps. "That's the next series," replied Kryuchkov...
...Most of them don't really believe that," Hopkins said. Nellen said she thought such comments were often made in jest...
...this standard. The reader may occasionally conclude that certain sequels in this book did not merit the space assigned to them, but one more often wonders whether, given their considerable talent, the authors may soon be adapting in earnest for Hollywood those sequels which are here presented in jest...