Word: jested
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hershberg writes that after hearing in 1942 that a Harvard scientist was hesitation to assist the project, Conant vowed in jest, "if it is true that Harvard has refused this request, as chairman of NDRC I will raise cain with the president of Harvard University...
...exchange of constituent "war stories" about the voice-mail system, which is used by many municipal offices in the City, prompted City Councillor Michael A. Sullivan to ask Reeves in jest, "Can we ban voice-mail in Cambridge...
...grace. Adrian Lester, a willowy black Rosalind, has the gift of breathless apprehension, ever ready to burst into tears at the folly and wonder of men. Scott Handy is Orlando, properly perplexed at the vision of a man (Lester) playing a woman (Rosalind), who for the sake of a jest is playing a man. Simon Coates is deliciously censorious as Rosalind's companion, Celia, a young lady well bred in exasperation; some day she may grow up to be Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell...
...what you want is what you get at McDonald's today." While the message doesn't present a problem, the means of communication do. All of the actors utilize an extreme dialect and mode of speaking that no person I know, white or black, has ever used except in jest...
...unspeakable crime? Posting a suicide note--in jest--on the Internet...