Word: jesting
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Packwood says the diary entry was wrong, that if Gramm said what was on the transcript, it was in jest. Still, in 1993 Packwood seemed quite serious when he erased the passage from the audiotape into which he had dictated it. In its place, he said, "There was the usual argument--I suppose a more polite word for it would be discussion--of how much money the national committee or senatorial committee was going to give the state party." How did the actual words come to light? Packwood kept a copy of the original, which he never altered...
...Harvard alumni and administrators, Vellucci is probably best known as the politician who several times in jest suggested turning Harvard Yard into a giant parking...
...fact, however, the paper was as divided asthe rest of the University, and the term "Crimsonfascist wing" began to be used, first in jest andthen at least half seriously...
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...