Word: jestingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trained in London's Royal Ballet school, she looks more like Piccadilly than Wanchai. And the film's sentimental, sanitized conception of the Oriental prostitute as a sort of rising young calendar girl who graciously takes her turn as a U.S.O. hostess will seem a cruel jest to the undernourished minions of Asia's vast sex industry, many of them dead of disease or exhaustion long before they reach the heroine's comparatively advanced...
...unfair that Europeans are not allowed to participate in the election of the U.S. President, since their fate in so many ways is in the hands of men chosen by Americans alone," the late Aneurin Bevan once remarked, only half in jest. Last week not only the U.S. but Europe and the rest of the world were debating the qualities and qualifications of President-elect John F. Kennedy...
...bachelor, climbs low-resistance mountains ("I'm not the rope and piton type of climber"). He is still devoted to music, and may spend part of the $43,627 Nobel Prize on a really good viola. His boss, Chancellor Glenn Seaborg, a Nobel prizewinner himself, says, not wholly in jest, that he realized Glaser was highly eligible for a Nobel Prize and enticed him to Berkeley just in time to get some of the credit for the University of California...
...Summer School has had a history like Topsy. It was "nevah borned, it jest grewed." No one truly knows the birth date, no early records exist, and even the memory of first director failed in trying to recollect the first few summers of class instruction...
...plunged in gloom: all the portents indicated a Humphrey victory next week. "Things aren't as bad as we say they are," said a weary Kennedy aide. "They're worse." Humphrey fluctuated between doubt and exultation. "You know what?" he told a reporter, only half in jest, "I may win this primary. It scares me to death. Then what will I do? Every favorite son in the country will begin to quiver again. They'll get as tough as boiled owls...