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Word: jesting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: By Alejandro Jenkins, | Title: A Fool's Complaint | 12/1/1999 | See Source »

David B. Orr '01, a member of the council and the BGLTSA, said students should be outspoken when they hear someone jest about homosexuality...

Author: By Nicholas Walker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Homophobia Forum Attendees Suggest Action | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Watson Says Law Cannot Handle Genetic Engineering | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Putting the Pieces of College Life Together | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dad Says, I Don't Miss Politics | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

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