Word: jestingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theory that "the more blues the investors sing, the closer we are to bottoming out." As of last week, most analysts were forecasting-or at least hoping-that the market will rally somewhere between 585 and 600, then slowly climb back. But it is only half in jest that Wall Streeters warn that when almost all of them agree on something, they are likely to be wrong...
...Musial's wry jest had come true two seasons back, no Cardinal fan would have been much surprised. At 41 and in his 21st big-league season, "Stan the Man" has survived long past a ballplayer's professional life expectancy. His contemporaries - Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Owen, Jackie Robinson - are fishing, running bowling alleys, and collecting votes for the Hall of Fame. Yet Musial, his reflexes still sharp and his aging muscles still limber, keeps right on playing leftfield for the Cards with a young man's speed. And each time he uncoils from his familiar...
Yazid's mild jest did not obscure the real importance of the occasion. In a single night he had driven 500 miles to Tunis from the Libyan capital of Tripoli, where the Algerian National Revolutionary Council had been in session, to tell waiting newsmen of the cease-fire agreement with France. By an overwhelming vote, the council empowered Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda to conclude the agreement as he saw fit, without the need of obtaining further council approval...
...streak in modern baseball history (23 games). Through a rainfogged cabin window, Phillie Pitcher Frank Sullivan peered apprehensively out at the ramp, where a crowd of 250 damp Philadelphians stood like a lynch mob. "Get off the plane at one-minute intervals," Sullivan advised his mates, only half in jest. "That way, they can't get us all in one burst...
Sometimes Jackie shows signs of panic at the prospect of her own new frontier. "I'll get pregnant and stay pregnant," she told a friend, only half in jest. "It's the only way out." But when she considers the alternative-if Jack had lost the election-she surveys her fingernails as if ready to bite them, and admits that there are worse prospects than the White House. "How could you fill his life? If he had lost, he'd have been around the world three times and written three books. But it wouldn...