Word: jesting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...maintain that a large part of the population is condemned to failure from the outset would require a ruthlessness that Americans cannot muster except in jest (which might be why American comedy is largely about outrageous losers, like Kramer, Dilbert and Homer Simpson...
David B. Orr '01, a member of the council and the BGLTSA, said students should be outspoken when they hear someone jest about homosexuality...
Watson said, only half-in-jest, that when he was putting together an ethics committee to look into cloning, that he wanted a woman in charge. "Women essentially like babies, men try to avoid them," Watson said...
...college and not Harvard that struck me first. Now I know that the two are not so easily separable, but the callow youth of my first semester (I write that only half in jest) I thought that college was college and Harvard was Harvard...
...grandkids and friends and entertainers and power seekers from all over the world. Wherever the Bushes congregated, they were rarely in family huddles; but when you watched, they seemed always to be connected--with a gesture, a glance, a joke from the podium, the President laughing at whatever lame jest one of the kids made, Barbara surveying everybody's manners...