Word: jesting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could that be done only in jest? Kenneth I. Winston Research Follow...
...cousin Bienville tartly notes, "more names than Jehovah," among them Moumou, Puss and the Dauphin. This spectrally beautiful, thin, pale child speaks a bewildering mixture of French and "Ol' Kintuck," the hayseed dialect he absorbed during his brief exposure to Governor Davis' three strapping sons: "O, he jest being plain bad. O, il m'echappe toujours!" All the Sioux are holding their breath to see how George takes to Castleton. Armand reassures his brother-in-law: "The Dauphin has a truly terrifying sense of gratitude. You'll be annihilated by it, my poor Vince. Nothing can stand up against this...
...vocally, as did most other students on campus, if polls conducted last fall are accurate. But much of this support, you got the sense, was predicated on the notion that there was no intellectual basis for backing Reagan. "You voted for Reagan?!" was a phrase said only half in jest most of the time, as if somehow the errant person were a mental midget...
...other words, the Army's new prestige is entirely unwarranted. Evidently, though, the sort of person who volunteers to join the military is not the sort of person who goes to the library to look up the military's record. As Tom Lehrer '47 noted in jest two decades ago, "Not only does the military prohibit discrimination the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on the grounds of ability...
...staff discussions were peaceable. There was, however, one brief moment of high tension. In jest, a White House adviser suggested that a secret Kremlin summit was in the works. Said he of a debate date: "Maybe we can do it on the day we get back from Moscow." After a bewildered second or two, the Democrats chuckled. Nervously...