Word: jesting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the mystery of the anonymous official was resolved, a spokesman said that Reagan's remarks were "in jest" and that he agreed with Haig's view. But Haig, by then, was restating his position in response to right-whig dismay over the possibility of involving the Soviets in a Central American settlement. His clarification: "Salvador is at once a global, a regional and a local problem. That does not mean, nor did it ever mean, that the Soviets, or the Cubans for that matter, must be invited to the negotiating table." Said an aide: "The boss...
...majority finally decided it was the last, and so Jim Turner ("I'm not used to all this publicity") faced the cameras and fielded most of the questions. And he had to smile when one reporter asked him, in jest, if he had been practicing that shot...
...idea of postponing the income tax cut brought demurrals from several more conservative board members. Energy Economist James McKie of the University of Texas protested, only half in jest, that as a lifelong member of the middle class he had been counting heavily on the tax cut as being the first such action in years to benefit him directly. Now, said McKie, he supposed he had been right in suspecting all along that it was too good to be true and that something would transpire to snatch away the benefit before he could enjoy...
...after a 1940s movie, along the lines of The Philadelphia Story or Bringing Up Baby. In the sumptuous settings and romantically stylized plots of these classic Hepburn-Tracy films. Samuels sees a modern theatrical framework that suits Shakespeare's comedies. His production, based on this motif, bursts with the jest and joys of love, as various sets of lovers "cast off their masks and earn the right to marry...
...being bitchy, gossiping? You jest. We never gossip. We merely exchange useful information...