Word: jests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When a U.S. reporter asked whether he had consulted President Reagan about the crackdown beforehand, Sadat rightly dismissed the question as impertinent, later adding, in bitter jest: "In other times, I would have shot you, but it is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition...
...there was little cause for jest. The religious parties quickly showed their clout when vacationing Knesset members were summoned for a special session to discuss the legal issues raised by the disputed project. Members of Agudat Israel and some Deputies from the more moderate National Religious Party have argued that the archaeologists, who have a government license to excavate for relics of King David's 11th century B.C. biblical city, are actually disturbing the graves of a 700-year-old cemetery, thus violating religious...
...Henry. And the reigning king even betrays vestiges of the unrcined prince Hal from the two previous plays, as when he flicks tennis balls to a couple of courtiers, leaps up into the arms of his uncle Exeter, or delivers 'Forgive me, God' as a kind of self-conscious jest...
...ranking Democrat. Long and his House counterpart, Barber Conable of New York, ranking Republican on the Ways and Means Committee, do not command enough votes to pass a tax bill, but both have the power to grease, or gum up, the works. Long has said, only half in jest, "I think every Senator should have at least one amendment" to the tax measure...
There is a well-worn jest in South Africa that the country's "colored problem" actually began about nine months after the first Dutch settlers landed at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. However, in the strictly segregated society that has developed since, it is no laughing matter to suggest that the Afrikaners, who make up the majority of the 4.5 million ruling whites, are anything but racially pure. Thus when a South African academic raised the possibility again last week, he rattled racial skeletons in every Afrikaner parlor and dining room...