Word: jestingly
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...bystander shook his head, said "Surely you jest," and then signed the petition. Harold Kim '86, who also inscribed his name said, "Tell me if it works. Then I'll get my little sister...
...hope it was in jest." Wright countered, adding that for the 36 million Americans who receive benefits, nothing has done more to create peace of mind...
...economy, dismisses the rival supply-side school, which Reagan championed. Supply-siders claim that cuts in tax rates should spur savings and investment and release a torrent of new production. "Our dispute with supply-siders is that their theories are nonsense," retorts Klein. Then he adds, in only partial jest: "They pulled a vast swindle on the American public-so much so that I've often thought that if there were Nuremberg trials for economists, supply-siders would be in the dock...
Read Jimmy Carter's memoirs? Surely you jest. Living through them was punishment enough...
...joke, it drew great guffaws. "The biggest moneymaker in Hollywood last year was Colombia," quipped Johnny Carson during the 1981 Oscar awards ceremony. "Not the studio-the country." There is considerable truth in the jest: though used throughout the U.S., cocaine remains an especially apt symbol for the affluent Southern California lifestyle. If John De Lorean's alleged shipment of 220 lbs. had indeed made its way into the Los Angeles marketplace, it would have found buyers...